Trace the development of Bathsheba Everdene
throughout the course of the novel.
"Far from the Madding Crowd", by Thomas Hardy is about an immature nineteen-year-old girl called Bathsheba Everdene; she has difficulties throughout the novel. She has some good and bad experiences. These are with three different characters. In the beginning of the novel Bathsheba is vain, insensitive, egocentric and stubborn. She gradually develops through the novel as she becomes less vain, stubborn, insensitive, and egocentric and becomes more confident, caring and more determined to make her farm work, this shows how her character changes as she looks at the bad things that have happened in her life and tries to put them right. As she progresses through the novel her responsibilities become more demanding. These roles make her an independent and successful lady. She also becomes more sensitive and responsible towards men.
Bathsheba 'major fault' is an immature and vain young nineteen-year-old woman. Bathsheba is unaware of her own actions as she leads men on without knowing. A way in which this can be shown is the fact that she is aware of Oak having feelings for her but despite this she lead him on. She shows this when Oak asks her to marry him, but she doesn't like the idea of it until he mentions that she will get publicity. Oak suggests that he would publish their marriage in the wedding section in the public newspaper and she goes along with it as she will get known, but when he starts saying he needs commitment, she slowly losses interest and this shows that she has no real reason for wanting to marry him apart from the fact that she wants attention.
"Dearly I shall like that"
This leads onto her showing her vanity as she looks in her mirror for no reason at all as she smiles at herself.
"She blushed at herself and seeing her reflection blush, blushed the more."
She is self-centred and thinks about herself. She also shows this when she will not pay for the toll because she wants her own say and wants to stand up for herself. She would not pay Oak went down to the tollgate and paid for Bathsheba, but she just dismissed him. Then she carries on going. Oak was thinking about what had just happened as he was slightly confessed. They met again in the forest when she was riding though in an unladylike way when Oak saw her. She got very angry when she thought Oak was spying on her, which she disliked.
throughout the course of the novel.
"Far from the Madding Crowd", by Thomas Hardy is about an immature nineteen-year-old girl called Bathsheba Everdene; she has difficulties throughout the novel. She has some good and bad experiences. These are with three different characters. In the beginning of the novel Bathsheba is vain, insensitive, egocentric and stubborn. She gradually develops through the novel as she becomes less vain, stubborn, insensitive, and egocentric and becomes more confident, caring and more determined to make her farm work, this shows how her character changes as she looks at the bad things that have happened in her life and tries to put them right. As she progresses through the novel her responsibilities become more demanding. These roles make her an independent and successful lady. She also becomes more sensitive and responsible towards men.
Bathsheba 'major fault' is an immature and vain young nineteen-year-old woman. Bathsheba is unaware of her own actions as she leads men on without knowing. A way in which this can be shown is the fact that she is aware of Oak having feelings for her but despite this she lead him on. She shows this when Oak asks her to marry him, but she doesn't like the idea of it until he mentions that she will get publicity. Oak suggests that he would publish their marriage in the wedding section in the public newspaper and she goes along with it as she will get known, but when he starts saying he needs commitment, she slowly losses interest and this shows that she has no real reason for wanting to marry him apart from the fact that she wants attention.
"Dearly I shall like that"
This leads onto her showing her vanity as she looks in her mirror for no reason at all as she smiles at herself.
"She blushed at herself and seeing her reflection blush, blushed the more."
She is self-centred and thinks about herself. She also shows this when she will not pay for the toll because she wants her own say and wants to stand up for herself. She would not pay Oak went down to the tollgate and paid for Bathsheba, but she just dismissed him. Then she carries on going. Oak was thinking about what had just happened as he was slightly confessed. They met again in the forest when she was riding though in an unladylike way when Oak saw her. She got very angry when she thought Oak was spying on her, which she disliked.
