The Development of Bathsheba Everdene in Far from the Madding Crowd
“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 ...
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labelled to Bathsheba in six years time.
In conclusion Bathsheba emotions change, as she knows that Oak will be
leaving.
“Leaving England, Why Gabriel, what are you going to do that for?”
This news shows that this is the worst time she has had as Oak has
been there for her through everything. She has had mixed feelings foe
three different men which make her grow. She soon realises that she is
in love with him; her love for him makes her grow and become very
mature near the end of the novel. Bathsheba marries Oak as she
realises that he is the right man for her and will be able to tame her
and be there for her.
Each of the three men helped he develop and become a more confident
and responsible lady. Though the whole of the whole of the novel
Bathsheba had problems and she managed to resolve them, which made her
a better character.
While she might think that her plans are working, they only lead her down a path of destruction. She lands in a boarding house, when child services find her, she goes to jail, becomes pregnant by a man who she believed was rich. Also she becomes sentenced to 15 years in prison, over a street fight with a former friend she double crossed. In the end, she is still serving time and was freed by the warden to go to her mother’s funeral. To only discover that her two sisters were adopted by the man she once loved, her sister is with the man who impregnated her, and the younger sister has become just like her. She wants to warn her sister, but she realizes if she is just like her there is no use in giving her advice. She just decides that her sister must figure it out by
way she downed their inner feelings and did not treat them as real people . From
and she made sure people knew it. But was this merely a mask to cover a cowardly
great lengths to postpone marriage to one of them. She puts the men off for
Sigmund Freud, the originator of psychoanalysis, once stated the following: “The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’ In the three works we studied in class I believe that all the stories have the different answers to this question. In Medea, the Wife of Bath, and Emilia I believe that there are three different answer they would give to this question. In Medea, you still a strong and hurt person. The Wife of Bath tale tells us what the women believe that every woman desires. Lastly, Emilia is very intelligent and loyal. While these three tales are very different, they are also very much the same. As I read deeper into the stories, I realized that Freud statement is answered throughout these works.
same time imposes his will on her. He hinders her from having her own thoughts.
What would happen if there were modern courts during biblical times? If there were modern courts then a jury would have been tasked with deciding who was guilty in the rape and murder case involving King David and Bathsheba. The jury would need to read the text that describes the events very deeply and in a detailed manner before they came to a conclusion. In the case of the Bathsheba incident they would need to read 2 Samuel 11 and 2 Samuel 12. The jury would find Bathsheba innocent of any wrong doing because she was under the control of the powerful king David, she had no choice but to act as she did, and she did not initiate any of the violence that occurred. David was guilty of rape and murder because he was in control the entire time.
Although he has some trouble the first day, which include being beaten when he refuses to give up his seat, he quickly finds comfort in young woman by the name of...
is that Emily does not wish to marry either of the knights. she expresses this
...n be seen as her overcoming his total control over her life. She was now taking control, almost taking over the role that he had previously occupied.
meantime she goes through a series of maturing experiences. She learns how to see her
that if she brought her single sister to New Salem he had to promise to
agree with the actions she performs and his guilt overwhelms him. The guilt he feels pushes him to do
...s that her family will come to her and beg her to return home. When she realizes that they are not going to do this, she will run back to them, and life will go on as she has always known it.