The story centres on Bathsheba Everdene, a young woman both beautiful and propertied, who attracts the romantic interests of three very different men: Gabriel Oake, a rough but honest farmer who has lost his fortune and works on Bathsheba’s farm Boldwood, a bachelor twenty years Bathsheba’s senior whose dormant passions are fired when he meets her and Troy, a dashing young soldier who moves into the neighbourhood. So also with love and marriage, and this is the theme of Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd. Love and marriage may indeed, as the song says, go together like a horse and carriage, but even a horse and carriage might, in a storm, bolt or overturn, with disastrous consequences. Although she scarcely knew the divinity’s name, Diana was the goddess whom Bathsheba instinctively adored.
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