Themes of the far from madding Crowd.

Themes of the far from madding Crowd.
                           

    

1)Unrequited love:-

           Much of the plot of  far from madding crowd depend on unrequited love by one person for another that is not mutual in that other person and the other person does not feel love in returned.

               In the novel in the few chapters the love that Gabriel Oak had for Bathsheba was one sided love and when he loses all his wealth. He is free wonder anywhere in search of work but he go to wealtharbury because it is in the direction that Bathsheba has gone after that Oak gets a job in Bathsheba’s farm when he all the time consoles Bathsheba in her troubles and supports her in tending the farm with no sign that he will ever have her love in return because his love was unconditional and unflinching.

                         Blodwood also had unrequited love for Bathsheba and the reason for his love was valentine card which was sender by Bathsheba and therefore Blodwood had good reason to believe that she might love him but Bathsheba keeps on telling him that she will not marry him as she does not love him .

                     Bathsheba also suffers a similar unrequited love for troy she loved troy all hearty and wanted him as her life partner to get troy he also lose her vanity but ultimately she is dumped by troy after their marriage Bathsheba feels that troy is mistreating could not stop herself from loving troy even after the rummer of troys death her feeling for troy was the same.

    2) Catastrophe:-

             This novel focuses also that catastrophe can occur at any time and treating to change the lives of the character the most obvious example accuse when Oak flock of ship is destroyed by circumstances, in which because of Oaks inexperience dog. All sheep’s falls in to the chalk pit.

                             Because of that incident just in one night Oak’s future as an independent farmer is destroyed.

   3) Social Hierarchy:-

Fr FROM Madding Crowd offers modern reader a clear picture of how social position was important in England in 19 century. The novel is set in idealistic setting in a ruler English village. The character of Bathsheba was very much concern regarding her social status and therefore at one stage of her life .She decides to give an approval to the marriage proposal of Blodwood because she thinks that their marriage would enhance her social position even if she never loved Blodwood .She got ready to marry him.

               In chapter 4 when Oak was rejected by Bathsheba he regretted for the first time of being an ordinary man with “No high social status”.

   4) Tragedy:-

                      The novel reflects Hardy’s affinity to tragedy .Tragedy is one of the most evident think not only far from madding crowd but almost in all Hardy novel .There are many tragic situation which are in enough to transform the novel in to a deeply touching tragedy .This is profane by tragic ends of the three main character of fanny, Troy and Blodwood but the protagonist Oak is saved from all the tragedy throw Bathsheba faces many tragedy ultimately see over comes them later.

  5) Feminism:-

                              The novel highlights strength of the lead female character Bathsheba she is portrayed as strong practical, capable and independent a farm which is basically a man’s domain she seen a women of substance and she hardly cylinder herself to favorable circumstances.