"She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. Bathsheba is unique and attractive, and she turned every man's head. She starts out as her own bailiff, superintends and manages everything, and boldly enters the world of market, a world of men. But here, we have a heroine who can do it, who is a farmer and takes on a lot of duties. I read a lot of romances in which the heroines do nothing more than sip afternoon tea while entertaining callers, and attend balls and soirees and drink the waters in Bath. She doesn't shy away from work, she is courageous, intrepid and cannot be tamed. "Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness."īathsheba Everdene strong, wilful, independent and, above all, beautiful, Bathsheba is a woman ahead of her time.
Far From the Madding Crowd is the poignant, moving and brilliant story of Bathsheba Everdene and her three suitors. Anyways! Even though this story takes place in rural Wessex and is filled with sheep and fields and moonlit nights and beautiful descriptions, there is a lot more to it than just animals and landscapes. But I do love the fact that Gabriel Oak was a shepherd, and not say, a pig farmer. I love sheep :) They are so cute! But sheep are actually not the reason why I love this book so much. "Sheep are such unfortunate animals! - there's always something happening to them! I never knew a flock pass a year without getting into some scrape or other." This became the archetypal - and literal - cliff-hanger of Victorian prose. In the novel, Hardy chose to leave one of his protagonists, Knight, literally hanging off a cliff staring into the stony eyes of a trilobite embedded in the rock that has been dead for millions of years. The term cliffhanger is considered to have originated with Thomas Hardy's serial novel A Pair of Blue Eyes in 1873. Hardy's poetry, first published in his 50s, has come to be as well regarded as his novels, especially after The Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The bulk of his work, set mainly in the semi-fictional land of Wessex, delineates characters struggling against their passions and circumstances. He regarded himself primarily as a poet and composed novels mainly for financial gain. Thomas Hardy, OM, was an English author of the naturalist movement, although in several poems he displays elements of the previous romantic and enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.
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