Consider carefully which of Bathsheba’s three suitors, Boldwood, Troy or Oak possessed the qualities most likely to make Bathsheba a good husband.
Far from the Madding Crowd TASK: Consider carefully which of Bathsheba's three suitors, Boldwood, Troy or Oak possessed the qualities most likely to make Bathsheba a good husband. In the book, 'Far from the Madding Crowd' by Thomas Hardy, there are three suitors for the novels protagonist, Bathsheba Everdene. Unfortunately because she is a very capricious lady, one suitor is murdered by another, who was consequently sentenced to life imprisonment. This essay will discuss which suitor would have been the most compatible to Bathsheba in marriage. In the novel, Bathsheba is the second character we are introduced to, and Thomas Hardy portrays her as a very beautiful but penniless woman. She is the protagonist of the novel, and her interaction with her various suitors propels the plot. As the story unfolds, her character is developed, but it is very clear in the beginning she is a very vain woman. This is firstly shown when Gabriel sees her sitting on top of a carriage full of furniture. It is obvious her beauty entrapped him and he, 'followed the vehicle to the turnpike gate some way beyond the bottom of the hill, where the object of his contemplation now halted for the payment of the toll.' Bathsheba's vanity was evident where she refused to pay the turnpike keeper the extra two pence he wanted. Subsequently, Gabriel paid it and she was neither pleased nor dismissive
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas HardyDescribe the activity you undertook: Produced a role play where we had to improvise and be Bathsheba, Fanny and Liddy. They were brought together for a meeting where the topic "Women Exploitation
GCSE English Reading: Response to Poetry -Oral Assessment Name: Georgina Oakford Cand. No. Centre No. Text, Title, Topic or Question for assessment: Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy Describe the activity you undertook: Produced a role play where we had to improvise and be Bathsheba, Fanny and Liddy. They were brought together for a meeting where the topic "Women Exploitation" arose. I took on the role as Liddy. Describe your preparation for the task Read Far From The Madding Crowd Watched film Researched background and characters Produced a role-play of Bathsheba, Fanny and Liddy. Make notes of the key points you deal with regarding social, historical and cultural issues in comparison: Views on women and how the use of vocabulary is used to distinguish between the different classes. When playing Liddy, I identified with Bathsheba and Fanny as I had been used in the hurt in the past because of women exploitation. The book is completely based on Bathsheba; a woman and at that time there was a queen on the throne so perhaps the book is also showing the era of Queen Victoria. I used this knowledge to develop my vocabulary to adapt to the way they spoke in those times. This showed the period of time the book was written in. Moral issues arose and showed how men dominated woman in those
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Relieves responsibility. At the start of the story, we are told by Liddy that Boldwood "took her and put her to school and got her a place here with your uncle." And that "he's a very kind man." With this, we can see that Boldwood is regarded highly in the eyes of the country folk. However, when he fell for Bathsheba, he became an emotional wreck and his hay ricks ruined as he didn't collect them in before the storm. By doing this, he is shirking his responsibilities. As Gabriel said, "A few months earlier Boldwood's forgetting his husbandry would have been as preposterous as a sailor forgetting he was in a ship." Boldwood forgetting his hay ricks was a huge clue to how much Bathsheba's marriage had affected him. At the end of the story, he tried to take his own life and was only stopped by his worker Sam. Compared to the dignified and respected Boldwood we saw at the start of the novel, this is a drastic change. Similarly, Troy shirks his responsibilities and drags the rest of the workers down with him as well by practically forcing them to drink. He tells them that "If any of the men show the white feather, let them look else where for a winter's work." By saying this, the men had been left with no choice but to do what he told them to. He shows contempt towards Gabriel's suggestion that the hay ricks should be covered in order to protect them from the rain. In the end
"What do the minor characteristics contribute to the novel?"
"What do the minor characteristics contribute to the novel?" The minor character in the novel, such as the farm labourers and Bathsheba's maids, although appearing to be insignificant and unimportant actually have influential and crucial roles to play in the novel. They provide the story with many aspects which help move the plot forward whilst bringing authenticity, humour and personal views to the tale. Undeniably the most important minor character is Liddy, she provides the reader with large amounts of valuable information concerning the personalities of Bathsheba from the conversations they hold. This is mainly due to the close relationship between the two, Liddy being Bathsheba's maid. As a result, the characteristics of the latter are shown, not through narration which would be too crude and observable for Hardy's style, but through conversations between the two. By using this method Hardy can exercise his trademark subtlety and let the audience come to their own conclusions concerning Bathsheba, that of which Hardy originally intended. A good example of this technique where by using Liddy as a medium in which the characteristics of Bathsheba are fed to the reader is at the beginning of the novel where we first come into contact with Bathsheba's excessive vanity. The following quote was from a conversation between the two women on the subject of Oak's proposal:
Far from the madding crowd
Far from the madding crowd In the early chapters of the book we discover positive and negative sides of Bathshebas character. Firstly when Bathsheba at first comes in she is wearing red, this shows evil or danger. She argues with the tollgate because she doesn't want to pay, this shows what kind of character she is. Bathsheba gets annoyed that Gabriel paid the money for her, she wanted to get her own way and not pay. When they first speak Gabriel calls her vein, she does not reply which signifies that it could be true. Fortunes change around with Bathsheba, and Gabriel. He loses all of his sheep and becomes unemployed. While at the same time Bathsheba's fortunes get better when she inherits a farm off her uncle. However they meet again when Gabriel saves Bathsheba's hey Rick's, when Boldwood gets all the workmen drunk and a storm starts. Bathsheba is good at running the farm as she shows no sign of lack of control, this shows her independence. She becomes sexually attracted to Boldwood and he becomes attracted to her. From this Bathsheba sends him a valentines card. She did not think, she doesn't even know Boldwood and she sends him a card, his reaction might repel to what she thinks. And so it does, he thinks that she is interested and starts thinking emotionally. Fanny Robin is compared to Bathsheba. They were both poor and beautiful. But as from general knowledge of
Far From the Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd by Suraj Shah (This coursework was awarded an A grade - 20/25) At the end of the novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' Bathsheba marries Oak for various reasons. I will be discussing these reasons in the following paragraphs. One of the obvious reasons would be that Oak is the only one left due to Troy's death and Boldwood's imprisonment. On the other hand, she could have chosen not to marry Oak and remain single for her remaining years. However, she did marry him because of other reasons, which is what will be discussed in the rest of this essay. Bathsheba didn't want to marry Boldwood due to his personality, way of life and his motives. If we were to consider these aspects of Boldwood we would be able to understand why she didn't want to marry him. Boldwood is a wealthy gentleman farmer and a bachelor of forty. He was a Puritan where he believed that there should be no fun every Sunday, but to just sit and read the bible. However, this is what it was like for him all the time where in his house 'the atmosphere was that of a Puritan Sunday lasting all the week.' This character is completely in contrast to that of Bathsheba's because she wants to have excitement all the time. She tells Oak this when he makes a proposal to her: 'I want somebody to tame me, I am too independent, and you would never be able to, I know.' Boldwood's life does not offer
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English coursework Pre-1914 prose study Far from the madding crowd My initial thoughts on dealing with a substantial Victorian text such as 'Far from the madding crowd' were mixed. I was aware that even the basics such as sentence structure would be very different they ways of modern literature. This book was written about a different world, with different words to accompany it. One must expect that this book will demand a greater level of concentration and ongoing sustained effort. Although my first thoughts were varied, I looked forward to reading something of this calibre. The title suggests a 'want for retreat' possibly away from the industrialisation taking over Victorian England. This book is the first 'Wessex' novel, a series of books about fictional places. I feel that these names were given to create a partly mythical, vision of rural England, bringing back ideas from before the time of urbanisation, possibly showing the authors longing for a return to the world he grew up in. As a romantic novel, it contains even more of a complex relationship than a love triangle, a love square! Hardy takes to using pathetic fallacy to put across his ideas which he can relate to nature to avoid offence in Victorian England. Other rural writers may use it to express themselves using ideas connected with the world they know, which is nature. Chapter XIV concentrates on the
Far From the Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd Roles of women in the Victorian times were very limited compared to now. They were expected to be house wives, and never expected to have an opinion or point of view. They were never in control of anything and everything was decided by men. They were usually expected to take care of everything in the house including looking after children. They were very much expected to be women whose life revolved around the domestic sphere of the home and family. However, this role was challenged by Queen Victoria In the novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd' you see Bathsheba and Fanny breaking the norms expected from women in Victorian times. Sometimes these norm-breaking actions would result in a sever consequence depending on how bad the norm-breaking was. However, sometimes these limits which exist were ignored, but no penalty was paid. In chapter 42 Bathsheba opens the coffin in which Fanny and her baby lay. Here you can see an example of a woman crossing the barrier of what was expected from her, but no penalty being paid. She is very insecure as weather to open the coffin or leave it closed. "If I could only look in upon you for one little minute I should know all" She finally does open the coffin and is slightly relieved that her tension and suspense has come to an end. "It was best to know the worst, and I know it now". She is in a lot of pain, because