Far
From the madding Crowd
By Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy is a very famous novelist and
his all novels have variety of characters. He has that skill to present lot of
characters in a single novel with different personalities. He was from rural
background in Dorset. His first novel was “Desperate Remedies” but his first
success was “Far from the Madding Crowd”
In most of his novels Hardy has used his
imaginative world, which he has given a name “Wessex”. Hardy has created a map
of that world and located his characters in that world.
Far
From the madding Crowd
This novel has
five main characters and all are connected with each other in different way.
The hero of the novel is Gabriel Oak and the heroine is Bathsheba Everdene and
the story revolves these characters lives.
It is a love story with many love triangles in
there. First there is a love story of Oak who meets Bathsheba and falls in love
with her beauty but after having a little conversation he came to know that she
has only one fault and that is her ‘vanity’. Oak is a very successful farmer
and everybody in town calls him ‘farmer Oak’. One day Oak was feeling ill and
Bathsheba has saved his life and after that Oak has went to Bathsheba’s aunt
with a marriage proposal but her aunt refused him and then Bathsheba also told
him that she does not love Oak so she can’t marry him and she wants a man with
good status and pamper her, but Oak would not be able to do that ever.
Bathsheba was a very ambitious
lady she has left the town to manage the farm which she got in inheritance, and
that night Oak has experienced a tragic incident, ha has lost his all the sheep
and became a poor man. Bathsheba was full of vanity, and to satisfy her vanity
she has also cheated Boldwood just for fun but Boldwood was really in love with
her. There were many men who wanted Bathsheba but Bathsheba fallen in love with
Troy who was already committed with Fanny.
Bathsheba
secretly gets married with Troy, and after marriage she come to know that Troy
was in love with Fanny and Bathsheba was nothing for him. After few days fanny
found dead with her child andtro accepted his love for her and left the town.
Troy was missing for several months and then declared dead too. Now boldwood
was ready to marry with Bathsheba and almost forced her in party and gave her
an engagement ring at that time Troy has came and Boldwood shot him, Troy was
dead and Boldwood sentenced to be dead. Oak and Bathsheba got married.
In
this novel Hardy has presented that how human emotions have became the thing of
playing, as Bathsheba’s aunt has played with Oak’s emotions towards Bathsheba,
Bathsheba has played with Boldwood’s emotions and Troy has played with Fanny
and Bathsheba’s love. All are playing with each other which brings tragedy in
the novel. It is all about love and romance but nobody loves each
The
novel clearly shows the nature of different human, oak is a man with golden
heart and always supports Bathsheba inn hher every problems. Boldwood is a man
with Passion, for him there is a line in the novel.
“If an emotion possessed him, It ruled him completely”
His passion towards Bathsheba made
her frightened. Another side there is Troy who is a kind of a flirty guy, he is
engaged with Fanny and wanted to marry her but because of Fanny’s
misunderstanding, he left her and with his flattery nature he has convinced
Bathsheba to marry her. After marriage he has shown his real personality to
Bathsheba. At the end it is happy ending only for Oak while Bathsheba has
suffered a lot in her life because of her pride and vanity and both the
character Troy and Boldwood have lost their lives. The title of the novel
suggests the construction of plot, at the end both the main characters went far
away from their confusing life.
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