far from the madding crowd by thomas hardy

However, if I take the book as a whole, I feel that I have inhabited the county of Wessex with a familiarity that is startling I recognize the types of characters who reside there, their passions and motivations. If I examine the characters and their actions individually, I have all sorts of criticisms about their development and plausibility.

And I can’t quite figure out how he does it. Yet amongst the dramatic scenes and the emotional mood swings of the characters, Hardy manages to convey a bold impression of the area and a deep understanding of the characters. But no!, another dramatic twist he returns, wonders why he ever left Bathsheba and appears to want to re-enter her life. Tragedy devastates Troy causing him to wander senselessly until it is thought that he is drown in the sea. His heart is loyal, his mind is captivated by only one and no other. After a fling in the town of Bath, they marry and he sets himself up at the farm as a rather lazy landowner, but lo!, Fanny Robin returns and Troy decides that he has never loved anyone as much as Fanny, and Bathsheba is as interesting as dirt to him. Boldwood, a neighbouring landowner, and Sergent Troy, a jaunty philanderer, seduces Bathsheba’s servant, Fanny, without much remorse, then deliberately bewitches Bathsheba with his rakish manner and manipulative personality, not to mention his unparalleled swordsmanship. A thoughtless whim on the part of Bathsheba leads to an obsession in the case of Mr.

When Oak finds himself ruined financially, he must depend upon Bathsheba to give him work and a way to reclaim his reputation. Set in the fictional English county of Wessex, Gabriel Oak is a respectable and reliable farmer who loves the unreachable Bathsheba Everdene, a woman who disparages his hard-working, yet common lifestyle and refuses his proposal of marriage. Would you like to read a book with the setting in southern rural England, populated by stoic farmers, simple and often comical peasants, one that explores complex relationships between men and women of that time? It sounds like a wonderful beginning doesn’t it? “When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced to chinks, and diverging wrinkles appeared round them, extending upon his countenance like the rays in a rudimentary sketch of the rising sun.”

Far from the madding crowd by thomas hardy