Character Sketch of Bathsheba

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FMC-BATHSHEBA

CHARACTER SKETCH-DO HER VIRTUES OUTWEIGH HER FAULTS?

Bathsheba is the heroine of the novel who is depicted as a continually growing and changing character. She is not a perfect or ideal woman and has her faults but overall her accomplishments and virtues definitely outweigh the shortcomings of her personality.

Bathsheba is first portrayed as a poor attractive cottage girl admiring herself in a mirror. This vanity, Gabriel Oak is quick to observe is her chief fault. At the tollgate too she does not consider it necessary to thank Gabriel for paying the additional two pence she had refused to pay the gatekeeper to allow her to pass.

Vanity was indeed a part of the innermost core of her being. She had a vain woman’s desire to be looked at and admired and felt ignored when Farmer Boldwood was indifferent to her beauty and looks when she first visited Casterbridge market.

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However despite her self-confidence and independence she was an extremely jealous and possessive woman. It was this weakness that made her succumb to Troy’s charms and agree to marry him when he tells her that has met another woman more beautiful than her.

Initially she also feels jealous of the dead Fanny Robin when she sees Troy kissing her and proclaiming his true love for her and calling her his very own wife! She claims her love and right as his wife and when he rebukes her it leads to an awful scene between them and then their ...

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