Far From the Madding Crowd Essay

"Tragedies depend on a character whose central weakness prevents any chance of a happy conclusion: to what extent is this true of the Great Gatsby?"

Throughout the novel, Jim Burden, the narrator, makes numerous references to various texts, plays, and other literary works. Such allusions help to bring understanding to the book and add a sense of detail to the overall meaning. In this passage, the literary device of allusion is employed again, this time to the text “Georgics” by Virgil. This text explores the lifestyle, practices, and meaning of rural life and agriculture. This connects primarily to Jim as he and Ántonia were raised on farms. By connecting the book to this reference allows the reader to gain a broader and more enlightened comprehension of the novel. Both of these texts are quite similar with copious parallels that all help to depict the life of growing up in the country.

In Pride and Prejudice Austen offers up commentary on a variety of themes — prejudice, family, marriage, class, and so on. Of all the themes, perhaps none is better developed than that of Pride. Pride and Prejudice is regarded as a brilliant piece of social commentary, offering a vivid peek into the British Regency life in 1813. The social milieu of Austen’s Regency England was particularly stratified, and class divisions were rooted in family connections and wealth. In her work, Austen is often critical of the assumptions, pride, and prejudices of upper-class England. Austen often satirizes England’s prideful individuals; the England she depicts is one in which social mobility is limited, and class-consciousness and

Her deranged husband George Wilson discovers that it was Gatsby?s car that hit wife; as a result, he seeks out Gatsby and kills him. ?When a man gets killed I never like to get mixed up in it any way. I keep out. When I was a young man it was different? I stuck with them to the end? Let us learn to show friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead?? (Chapter 9, pg.173). Consequently, The Great Gatsby represents mankind?s feebleness by illustrating its blind struggle to find acceptance within society, it?s materialism, and its naturally sinful disposition through the characterization of Nick Carraway, Daisy Buchanan, and Tom Buchanan.

    Critics analyze and examine Wuthering Heights to obtain a deeper understanding of the message that Emily Bronte wants to convey. By focusing on the different literary elements of fiction used in the novel, readers are better able to understand how the author successfully uses theme, characters, and setting to create a very controversial novel in which the reader is torn between opposite conditions of love and hate, good and evil, revenge and forgiveness in  Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. There is no doubt that the use of conflictive characters such as Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and Edgar, with their interactions in the two different settings creates an

Characterization is an essential element of this novel, and it can be seen in almost every character. Bathsheba, for instance, is introduced to the reader as “a fair product of Nature in the feminine kind” (8). Her initial innocence is demonstrated by her biggest worry being the loss of her hat (16). She is also described early on as being an extremely “headstrong maid”… who “won’t listen to no advice at all” (115). In contrast, she later seeks Gabriel’s council on the matter of her regrettable hasty marriage and verbalizes her “care… for [his] good opinion” (283). Bathsheba’s transformation is evident throughout the novel, and, by the end, she has “lost all the pluck and sauciness [she] formerly had” (292). By the end of the novel, Farmer Boldwood has undergone a similar conversion, he “[steps] on, not with that quiet tread of reserved strength that was his customary gait”, rather he is “stunned and sluggish now” (223). Once “courted by sixes and sevens-all the girls” (82), Boldwood, humiliated and heartbroken, now wanders the countryside “like an unhappy shade” (263). Finally, when initially introduced, Fanny Robin is “unexpectedly attractive… suggestive of romance… and rare in experience” (56). Through Troy’s abandonment of her, she becomes solely recognizable by the “extreme poverty of [her] garb, and the sadness of her face”

Dex: “Hey kid, how you holding up?” walking over to Evan and putting his hand on his shoulder.

Living almost a century apart, Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy each explore similar themes of love through strong female characters. While society strove to keep women’s value directly tied to their marital status, Austen and Hardy wrote the stories of characters who defied these expectations. Bathsheba Everdene of Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd is a fiery young woman who inherits a farm, and Elizabeth Bennet of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is an educated woman who prides herself on speaking her mind regardless of the consequences. Both women are of marrying age, and both novels feature their romantic exploits. Besides their differing socio-economic and temporal settings, Bathsheba’s and Elizabeth’s behaviors indicate that they are facing similar feelings and conflicts when it comes to issues of love and marriage. Bathsheba goes to greater lengths to defy societal pressures than Elizabeth does, but Bathsheba’s circumstances warrant the effort. The real difference between these characters is the way in which they are written. One could not know how similar Bathsheba’s thoughts and feelings are to Elizabeth’s, because the reader rarely sees through Ms. Everdene’s eyes. Bathsheba Everdene is the greater feminist heroine when taken alongside Elizabeth Bennet; however, Hardy writes her story almost exclusively from the perspective of his male characters, leaving her represented as two-dimensional in comparison to

This horrifying image carries all the power of the destruction of Troy. These lines foretell not only the presence of the Greek formation (the fact that they arrived from Tenedos), but the assault (the murders), the Trojan defense, the murder of Polites and Priam (the son first and the father last), and the fires which rise above blazing Troy (their flaring necks and the screams that fill the skies). They display the destruction of Troy as the life of the snake.

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” Suffering is a theme that was demonstrated in all three novels. In the great Gatsby, the protagonist’s suffering came from a desire to win over a woman. Gatsby went to war and the love of his life married a wealthy man. Consequently, Gatsby spent the majority of his life acquiring wealth with the belief that it will help him win this woman back. Eventually, he gets this woman’s attention and they get to spend very minimal time together before Daisy’s husband, Tom, realizes the relationship building between Gatsby and his wife. Eventually, it is Daisy’s husband’s jealousy that leads to Gatsby’s death. It is a tragic story because Gatsby seemed to be in search of happiness in all

Miller, R. L., Butler, J., & Cosentino, C. J. (2004). Fellowership effectiveness: An extension of

The genre of Comedy is headlined by a hero who is not of a high rank like a tragedy, but instead is centered around the relatable, real-life human who is far from perfect. In Dead Poets Society, the comic hero is Welton’s new English teacher, Mr. John Keating. Keating’s goal is to teach his students the importance of poetry through the emphasis on self-expression and embracing the Latin saying, Carpe Diem, which means “seize the day.” As Keating fights against the school’s curriculum and standards, many of his students also struggle against forces which keep them from truly being able to internalize what Mr. Keating is teaching them. As the movie contains many serious themes and moments, the clown character of Charlie Dalton, as well as Mr.

Thomas Hardy’s first major novel, Far From the Madding Crowd is about an immature nineteen year old girl named Bathsheba Everdene, who encounters many difficulties throughout her time in Wessex, England. The story begins with Bathsheba inheriting her uncle’s prosperous farm and her encounter with Gabriel Oak, a young farmer from Weatherbury. Gabriel proposes to Bathsheba for her hand in marriage, but she refuses because she wishes to marry a man that she loves. A few weeks later she offers him the role of a shepherd at her new farm for rescuing her farm from a fire. As Bathsheba begins to understand managing her farm, she attempts to engage with her neighbor, Mr. Boldwood, by sending him a valentine card. From this moment on, Boldwood becomes

Emily Bronte’s classical literary masterpiece, Wuthering Heights, can more or less be viewed as a struggle between conventional, civilized human behavior, as well as the wild, anarchistic side that each of us humans possess, although subtly. Bronte’s piece can be summed up by the “good vs. evil” elements that include Wuthering Heights as opposed to Thrushcross Grange, Heathcliff vs. Edgar, and much more. These elemental set points lead to the conclusion that Wuthering Heights cannot be classified as a love story, as there is no ‘happy’ ending, and the heroine dies at roughly the halfway point of the book. This aspect makes the masterpiece an enduring Gothic classic, as Bronte is able to transform characters’ feelings onto paper, unmatched by any in the ‘dark’ literary realm. Bronte’s inclusions of aspects such as ghosts, as well as the tranquility in which the Grange brings are the set pieces that make the novel a battle between good and evil, rather than simply a fictitious love account that ends in futility.

In Thomas Hardy’s novel, titled Far From The Madding Crowd, the protagonist, Bathsheba, is surrounded by three different suitors. Gabriel, Boldwood, and Troy each try to win her hand in marriage. The different characteristics of these characters create a dynamic story where marriage and love are both highlighted and critiqued. The majority of this conflict takes place in the fictional area of Wessex, England. Hardy uses this fictional setting, and the surrounding town of Weatherbury, to depict how rural England was slowly going extinct with the rise of modern technology and industry. As a result of this rural setting, many of elements of pastoral literature are seen in the novel. Due to this, the text is often referred to as a pastoral novel. Pastoral novels portray rural country life as free from the complexity and corruption of city life. This idealized approach often uses shepherds and other natural elements in a poetic way to describe both love and freedom. Hardy uses the connotation associated with pastoral literature sarcastically to demonstrate how even in rural life social problems do arise. In the case of this work, the pastoral elements are structured in a way to create parallelism. These parallel episodes compare and contrast different characters through figurative language. The repetition of these motifs reflect and influence characters as well as develop themes. The contrast of fire and water is seen many times throughout the text. In Chapters Six and Thirty