Introduction to Far From the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840 in higher Bockhampton near Dorchester. Thomas Hardy wrote many novels including The Mayor of Casterbridge, The Poor Man and the Lady, and Desperate Remedies. He wrote Far From the Madding Crowd and published it in 1874, where it was met with considerable success. This book is about the developing relationships between three men, and one woman. Romantic means someone who expresses love and can easily charm the opposite sex with words of love. If someone is fanciful and full of love and the need to show their feelings and love for their partners, they are considered romantic. Farmer Oak is considered a romantic hero, while Troy is considered as being pseudo-romantic. Boldwood is romantic, but not a hero. Farmer Oak is very much like the ancient element of earth. The earth is strong and sturdy, yet wise and patient. The author shows this by the name in which Oak was given. Boldwood?s infatuation with Bathsheba will prevent her from ever fully appreciating his kindness and love for her. Gabriel Oak very heroically comes and saves all of Bathsheba?s ill and dying sheep. Gabriel Oak is very romantic and doesn?t just always seek Bathsheba?s affection, but her respect as well.
He continually gives his advice to her, and only tries to help her with his words of wisdom. She sometimes does not wish to hear these caring words, and after a short period of time, she casts him away from her farm in which he is serviced. In a fit of anger she tells Oak never to return. This state of anger was because Oak had told her he distrusted and disliked Troy, her fianc? and soon to be husband. It appears Bathsheba truly hates Oak, and Oak willingly leaves the farm, and seeks work elsewhere. Boldwood is not a romantic hero. He is romantic though, but his strong obsession with Bathsheba grew to be very bad. Boldwood represents the element of water; he is cool, and caring for everything. He is calm, but when he is mad, his power can be strong. Boldwood proves his obsession quite strongly when Boldwood buys Bathsheba a present for all the holidays and events coming up recently, and neatly wraps and stores all these away for when they were necessary. This was all before she had even agreed to marry him, proving that if Bathsheba should not agree to marry him, he may go insane. Bathsheba had told Boldwood that she would only marry him if he gave her time to think about the effects of the marriage, and all the wanted and unwanted consequences.
The Coursework on Gabriel Oak Bathsheba Troy Boldwood
English Literature Coursework Assignment - Far From The Madding Crowd (Prose written before 1900) 'Compare and contrast Bathsheba Everdene's three suitors " In the novel 'Far from the Madding Crowd' the main female role, Bathsheba Everdene, is pursued by three suitors, each of whom is very different from the others. These three men are Farmer William Boldwood, owner of the farm adjacent to ...
She was still in an emotional state of depression after her love, Troy?s, death. He had drowned when he left to swim in the sea, and he never returned. Boldwood asking her to marry him was a psychological knife to her mind and heart. Then, to make matters worse, Bathsheba and Boldwood found they could only marry after six years when Troy?s death could be legally confirmed. She agreed to marry him in six years time thinking this was enough time to fall in love with Boldwood. After agreeing to marry him, Boldwood through an exquisite and beautiful engagement party. This proved again how Boldwood was romantic. At the party though, things took a desperate turn for the worst when Troy returned to claim his lost love, Bathsheba. She was unwilling to go with him, and at the sight of Troy trying to steal his love after a long and tedious courtship, was what sent Boldwood into a state of rage where he retrieved a gun, and proceeded to shoot Troy. Troy was finally dead, but in the process of destroying the only thing left in the way of him and Bathsheba, he destroyed his future forever. Troy is not a romantic hero. Troy is only a hero, and very cockily believes himself a romancer. Troy is like fire.
He is often angry, and he does things often on a sudden whim of thought. He tries to prove his love for Bathsheba in a few ways including flattery, and sword skills. Troy is a qualified and strong soldier in the army. Before he met Bathsheba, Troy was engaged to Fanny Robin. He loved Fanny, and they were going to be wed in a chapel, but due to unfortunate luck, they went to separate chapels, and were not married. By coincidence, Fanny is Bathsheba?s milkmaid. Fanny went missing a short while later. Troy spent his time in the service to the army, intill he met Bathsheba. He was on guard duty, but he spent most of his time following and flirting with Bathsheba, who had the bad luck to meet him. It was by pure chance when they met again. This time, Troy sought her affection and secretly her lust, and begged Bathsheba to meet him again. Bathsheba agreed, but warned him she would not like him. She could clearly see that Troy was arrogant and shallow, yet still agreed to their meeting each other. Here is where we first see her growing like of Troy. At this secret meeting she continued to fall in love with him. At one of their meetings, he carried with him his razor sharp sword, where he practiced a large amount of moves, maneuvers, and skills within centimeters of her flesh.
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She never knew she could have died. At the end of this meeting he tells her the truth and Bathsheba feigns anger, and leaves quickly. She went back to her estate where she heard the servants speaking of Troy and Bathsheba. What they said was that Troy was a liar and didn?t deserve the love of Bathsheba. With these words being spoken, Bathsheba was sent into a fit or rage where she yelled at the maids angrily. A short while later, she admitted her love for him, and was actually angered that the maids could have spoken of Troy in such a vulgar manner. One maid apologized and Bathsheba was relieved, receiving these words as words of acceptance of her new love. They continued to meet secretly, and one night during one of their excursions, Boldwood met with Troy and offered him money to leave the relationship now, and instead let himself and Bathsheba marry. When Boldwood saw how much Bathsheba really loved Troy, he decided he only wanted what?s best for Bathsheba. Boldwood then changed his offer and wished Troy to marry Bathsheba instead knowing she would be happier with him. Troy takes the money, but later, laughs at Boldwood?s stupidity, and he throws the money back at Boldwood and exclaims loudly ??we have already married.? In another attempt to be romantic, Troy bought her a lovely gift to celebrate their marriage.
The Essay on Bathsheba Troy Love Oak
... Bathsheba happily married to Oak, although I think that it was more of friendship than love. Troy was united with his love in death and Boldwood ... I loved ... went from a successful farmer to an old murderer. I really enjoyed this story. ...
Troy was very superficial though. He only cared for what people thought of him, not what Bathsheba thought of him? During a storm, rather than help cover the bales of hay, which were being threatened to be blown away, he stays to enjoy himself and impress everybody else. They were married happily only for a short period of time before Troy started changing in which he became rude, and spiteful, and Bathsheba had a growing sense of worry. When Fanny dies and is brought to the estate, Troy looks upon Fanny with eyes of love, and incompleteness. It is then that he realizes his true love was not Bathsheba, but actually Fanny. He tells Bathsheba his love is not for her anymore, and he loudly claims their love broken. Troy has heroic qualities but is not actually purely heroic. He often does the opposite thing expected of a loving husband and a caring person. He wants only to be liked by the general populace. He married Bathsheba, but soon broke her heart and left her to seek a better future. He did this in a very unkind and cruel way and set up a false scene of his own death. Troy joins a fair where he travels the world. This was all brought about by Fanny?s death. Because of her dying, he found out, along with Bathsheba and Oak, that he had a child.
He has a psychological breakdown and claims to Bathsheba, ??she is more a women dead, than you are alive?.? He sees Bathsheba later by coincidence when she visits the fair. He recognizes her, and has a change of thought and wishes to return to her. He goes to Boldwood?s engagement party, and there, he try?s to claim what he sees as rightfully his. Here is where Troy proves he is truly mean and not heroic. He sees Bathsheba as a possession, and wants it back. This produces a scene almost as if Troy is a child, and when he sees Boldwood is playing with his ?toy?, he wants it back and to play with it. Looking at the elemental comparisons to the three main male characters, you soon realize that Boldwood killed Troy, or if seen from different prospective, water destroyed the fire?s flame. Oak starts the story proposing to Bathsheba. He wishes her to marry him, and very romantically claims she is beautiful and that he wants to spend the rest of his life with her. She is sorry to decline but does anyway. He leaves her and returns to his farm. In an odd accident he almost kills himself accidentally and Bathsheba saves him. Many times near the beginning of the book, he spies on Bathsheba, and watches her with more interest and respect overtime.
The Essay on Bathsheba Boldwood Troy Shows
Compare the successes of Troy and Boldwood in courting Bathsheba Boldwood and Troy both try to court Bathsheba however using different techniques and with varying success. Boldwood is pictured by Hardy to be a nervous, stammering man, 'but I am only just able to speak out my feelings - I mean meaning', this quote shows him stammering and a 'hopeless man for women'. Hardy has also shown this ...
To his dismay, she leaves to go to her relative?s farm where the owner recently died. He returns to his small farm again. Late that night though his sheep dog made a mistake and ended up herding the sheep off a cliff. All of his sheep died in this tragic accident. He needed to seek new work and did this at the town meeting. Many others were similarly looking for work, but no one offered Oak the job. He then heard about Bathsheba and where exactly she left too. Oak found this interesting and decided to get a ride to that area. By chance when he reached his destination, there was a large fire burning Bathsheba?s farm. Oak very heroically takes charge of the situation, and was a great asset to putting the fire out. Bathsheba decides to offer Oak the job of manager of the farm. It had recently gone vacant due to the last manager started the fire. Oak accepted the gracious offer, and would start work soon. Oak is a very good worker, and is smart as well. When he has advice, it is often good advice. So when he heard about Bathsheba and Troy, he knew he had to help. He didn?t want to see Bathsheba hurt. When he told Bathsheba of his distrust of Troy, Bathsheba was angered and thought Oak jealous.
This made Oak mad, but not beyond reason. She sent him away, and he knew he must leave. He came back, and because of Bathsheba?s state of emotions, she offered him the new job as bailiff, in which he accepted. After Troy died for real, Oak knew he must leave because his staying would only confuse Bathsheba more, when all she needed was healing, but in a very romantic way, he says he must go to America, so she can think. She begs him to stay, but he claims even more romantically, that either he leaves, or he stays as her other half forever. She agrees, and they marry soon after. Farmer Gabriel Oak is not the main protagonist in the story. The story doesn?t follow Oak, nor have very much to do with him. Boldwood and Troy are not the main protagonist either. These men are the three main male characters, but the main protagonist of the story is most obviously Bathsheba. The entire story almost follows Bathsheba threw the entire book, and we learn about her love life, and the excitement of her days. She tries to run the farm, and have a pleasant love life at the same time. We learn about Oak, Boldwood, and Troy all try and win her hand in marriage. At one point or another in the book, every one of the three main male characters is engaged to her at the least.
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It is not the romantic, or heroic man that wins her love, but the patient and wise romantic hero that does. The narrator of the story changes often, but the book almost always pertains to Bathsheba. The book starts with her description, and about Oak?s proposal. It follows as Oak and his journey to Bathsheba?s farm, We watch the entire story unfold and Bathsheba is always in the middle of it. With Boldwood?s developing love for her, Troy?s romanticizing of her, and then their marriage, then his ?death?, Boldwood?s proposal, and then Troy dying. Bathsheba is one woman, and in a short period of time, has to go through much life changing experiences, and through it all, Oak is there to comfort her. Bathsheba increasingly falls in love with Oak, throughout the entire story, but she is so stubborn, she spends the entire book practically falling in love with other men the same qualities of which are all in Oak. She is strangely humorous to think two men are sentenced to death or are dead, before she realizes her love for Oak. Oak from the start of the book sought Bathsheba?s love and affection. This is proven strongly by his making sure he caught a wagon to Weatherbury to hopefully meet with Bathsheba again.
Oak likes watching Bathsheba try and run the farm by herself, but is impressed when she does this all successfully. He realizes she is competent and very willful. Oak knew after watching her run the farm like she did that if he were to marry her, he would have to learn to deal with her willful ways, and even her vanity. Bathsheba was slightly worried that her husband may have had difficulty in adjusting to her ways, but she knew Oak was willing after their time spent together. This makes Oak more appealing and trustworthy. Oak is clearly worried about the farm when she turns most of her interest from the farm, and to her love life. Oak valiantly takes over the farm in the absence of her presence. This is very heroic as well, and romantic and lets Bathsheba know if anything were to ever go wrong, Oak would be there to help her. Even though Bathsheba becomes very moody near the end of the book, Oak stays by her side, and they grow closer all the while. My conclusion to this epic and exciting story of adventure and love; is that Bathsheba is a beautiful and strong woman who needs guidance and seeks this in the wrong places. Oak is a patient and wise character who watches everything unfold, but tries to remain neutral, in hopes Bathsheba learns a lesson.
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Boldwood is a calm and influential man, but throughout the story seems to receive nothing that he wants. He loses his farm, and then loses his fianc?e, and to finally end his poor existence, he loses his life. Troy is a mean and temperamental man who deserves the worst life has to offer. His love for Fanny remained true, but he unwittingly married Bathsheba and then broke her heart and soul by leaving. Near the end of the story we watch Troy brutally get murdered by none other than Boldwood. Troy meets his well-deserved death. Bathsheba and Oak marry, and live happily and contentedly ever after. This story is about one man, who meets and falls in love with one woman who unfortunately has to marry once, and get engaged twice before she realizes her love for him. They then get married and live happily.
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