Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy :: Thomas Hardy

Far From the Madding Crowd is considered the first neat fable of Thomas fearless. Marg art Drabble, editor and newist, cites the nary(prenominal)el as the first of Thomas Hardys great smarts, and the first to sound the tragic note for which his fiction is best remembered (Hardy xiii). Hardy was born in 1840 and began life as an architect. He wrote his first novel, The miserable Man and the Lady, in 1867. It was not received well. Four days later he wrote three more novels, two anonymously and one objective his name they were received slightly better then the first. His popularity and fame did not anthesis until the release of his fifth novel, Far From the Madding Crowd. This novel launched him into the public eye and helped him to operate the amazing writer and creator of the Wessex novels, as we know him today. The major round point in Hardys life was the reception of his novel, Jude the Obscure. Because of the major conflict concerning the make and its readers, Hardy swore to never write fiction again. Approximately thirty years later, after writing some poetry and short stories, Hardy dies and is inhumed next to Dickens in Westminster Abbey. His heart is buried in the Wessex countryside in the parish churchyard at Stinsford.Far From the Madding Crowd is the first of Hardys notorious Wessex novels. The important characters in the novel are Bathsheba Everdene, Gabriel Oak, Sergeant Troy and Farmer Boldwood. The novel begins with Oak and Everdene being introduced and Oak asking for Everdenes hand in marriage. She, of course, says no. After Oaks sheep are killed in a freak accident, he essential venture out and look for new work and winds up on Everdenes farm in Weatherby where he becomes head shepherd. Everdene continues to flirt with Oak and too with the neighboring landowner, Boldwood, whom ends up proposing to her as well. Again, her reply is, no. Finally we are introduced to the young Sergeant Troy, who also asks for Bathshebas hand in mar riage and this conviction we are shocked to find out the her reply was, yes Towards the end of the novel we find out that Troy has also seduced and impregnated a young milkmaid who has died in childbirth. Boldwood goes crazy and kills Troy because of his passion for Bathsheba and her refusal of him, and Bathsheba ends up betrothed to Oak.