Chapter XXIV : the fir plantation "for his gaze was too strong to be received pointblank with her own" Although this quote is quite obvious, I think it clearly foreshadows the position of Bathsheba in the relationship she will have with Troy. For the first time, she is really powerless and in the "inferior" position. It shows the power that Troy have and will have on her. This quote also shows the role of the gaze that is presented throughout the novel.
Chapter XXI: "Troubles in the fold" When Bathsheba called for Gabriel's help after the quarrelled: '"Gabriel, will you stay on with me"? she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon. "I will", said Gabriel. And she smiled on him again.' This quote represents for me the beautiful relationship that links Oak to Bathsheba, founded on peace, respect and friendship.
I choose the quote "it was a fatal omission of Boldwood's thzt he had never once told her she was beautiful" at the end of chapter XXIV the fir plantation.
I think this quote sums up both Boldwood's and Troy's personnalities. One really wants Bathsheba , but doesn't know her it is just an obsession and the other use flattery in order ''to get'' the women he wants. In the beginning of the book Bathsheba is described as vain and aware of her beauty. Thus Bathsheba might be more attracted by Troy since he has a better condition and he is flattering her. It does foreshadow the Troy/Bathsheba relationship.
I chose "He looked hard into her eyes when she raised them fo a moment: Bathsheba looked down again"
I chose this quote because I think it shows quite well the fact that for the first time Bathsheba looses power and looks down. Troy therefore seems to be the analogy of the powerful man of society. Contrary to what we would think (that Bathsheba, who always want to dominate and do not allow anyone to disagree with her would hate being controlled and in a submissive position), Bathsheba seems to like this authority and manly figure and she is so confused by herself liking this that she does not know how to react "Bathsheba was vexed she hardly knew why".
I chose a quotation extracted from Chapter XXI. It occurs when Bathsheba decides to send Gabriel a note to make him come back.
" "Do not desert me, Gabriel !" She looked a little redder in refolding it, closed her lips as if thereby to suspend till too late the action of conscience in examining whether such strategy were justifiable." I think this passage really shows how Bathsheba knows how to get what she wants from people. She knew exactly what she had to write to make Gabriel come back. It also clearly highlights the fact that she is not always confident in what she does ('examining whether such strategy was justifiable'). She seems a little ashamed to 'play' with people (seen through her blushing). However she does everything that is necessary to obtain what she needs. Although the words she wrote at the bottom of the note seem very exaggerated and overdramatic, they still are effective, as Oak will come back precisely because of them.
I chose a quotation from Chapter XXIX "Particulars Of A Twilight Walk" "Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse then a weak women who has never had any strength to throw away." I like this quotation because of the numerous repetitions of words that emphasizes their meaning, like the word "self-reliant" which really states the fact that Bathsheba is an independent woman, a strong one but her being so confident also makes her love for Troy more dangerous. By reading this quotation we also understand that her feelings for Troy will weaken her and make us see her in a position with men that we've never seen her in before.
Chapter 24 " His sudden appearance was to darkness what the sound of a trumper is to silence ". I chose this quotation because it shows the affect Troy has when he arrives in the book, he changes the atmosphere. It forshadows the events to come and the way Troy will create problems. It also describes some of Troy's character, he is always noticed.
Chapter 23 ""I will try to love you", she was saying in a trembling voice quite unlike her usual self-confidence."; I chose this quotation because it really represents Bathsheba's opinion about Boldwood at this point in the book, it emphasises the decreasing of Bathsheba's power and it also shows a side of Bathsheba that we did not really get to see before in the novel.
I have chosen a quote from Chapter XXIV, during the odd meeting of Bathsheba and Troy: “The contrast of this revelation with her anticipations of some sinister figure in sombre garb was so great that it had upon her the effect of a fairy transformation” I have chosen this quotation because it seems to me that it defines Troy for the rest of the novel. Troy always seems to arrive in dark and sombre situations, and hence always makes a contrast, by seeming lighter and having more qualities than the characters who were present before. Many examples can be given, such as when Troy arrives in Weatherbury, and Bathsheba is in the middle of a dilemma with marrying Boldwood, and Troy’s arrival gives her a lighter person to turn to. Paradoxically, as we learn more and more about Troy’s character, we notice that he seems better than his surroundings on the outside but in reality makes the situations he is caught into much darker and sinister than they had originally been.
I chose a quotation from Chapter 22, "The great Barn and the sheep shearers". "In these Wessex nooks the busy outsider's ancient times are only old, his old times are still new; his present is futurity."
I chose this quotation because I think it represents and explicits exactly what Hardy tries to convey in this novel about countryside. Through the exemple of the imaginary region of Wessex, the author shows how time in the countryside goes by in a very different way. In the city everything changes really quickly whereas villages can stay the same for years. It creates a particular atmosphere, almost unreal, in which the time is about to stop.
"It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful." I find this quotation extremely important because it foreshadows Bathsheba's relationship with Troy. I also find this quotation interesting since it shows how both of these relationships (between Bathsheba and Troy, and Bathsheba and Boldwood) are unsusual. One the one hand, we have Boldwood who seems to want to possess her as an object and therefore never actually wooed her or complimented her. On the other hand, we have Troy who seems to manipulate her through her vanity and over-compliment her.
I chose a quotation from Chapter XXIV. "You are a prisoner miss : it is no use blinking the matter" Troy's words show a clear double meaning as he calls Bathsheba a prisoner here, it foreshadows the fact that later on, she will be emprisoned both physically and mentally. Indeed, she will no longer be able to escape him as he weakened her and took every once of indepence and self control she might have had left.
"To an outsider there was not much to complain of in this remark, but to Oak, who knew Bathsheba to be well aware that she herself was the cause of the poor ewe's wound because she had wounded the ewe's shearer in a still more vital part..." Chapter XXII, The Great Barn and the sheep shearers
What I love about this quotation is the emotions it conveys . On one hand, we've got Bathsheba who, in the middle of the chapter, seems inconsiderate (or at least from my point of view) of Oak's feelings. Just like the previous chapters, gaze plays an important role here. However, the gaze in this chapter doesn't just involve Boldwood and Bathsheba, Oak is also part of it ,"Oak's eyes could not forsake them". In the end, through the gaze we, the readers, are filled with frustration (and perhaps a bit of anger) towards Bathsheba but also makes the focalisation made towards Oak easier to understand and relate to. And on the other hand, through the lexical field of "pain" such as "wound" which is used twice in this quotation, readers feel a lot of pity towards Oak and the ewe.
Overall, I believe this quotation has a lot of importance in terms of character development and understanding their emotions at this point in time.
"He says beggars mustn't be choosers" chapter XXI page 139 In this quotation we really see that Gabriel, for the first time in the book is in a position of power and can choose not to obey Bathsheba. Gabriel wants her to realise that sometimes things won't go the way she wants and/or that actions and words have consequences. Maybe Hardy wants to show that having too much pride is not always good by forcing Bathsheba to put hers aside for a bit. Moreover by making her powerless and forcing her to bring Gabriel back (and so making her realise she needs him), Hardy helps her; Indeed only he will be trustworthy till the end.
"O miss - I blush to name it - a gay man - a walking ruin to honest girls, so some people say." chapter XXIV page 165 This quotation gives us an accurate view of Troy's character and foreshadows what will happen between him and Bathsheba as well as the extent to which he has harmed Fanny. It also develops Bathsheba's character as from her first inquiry she has found what Troy is really like yet she choses to ignore this information and instead maintain the image she has formed of him. This can be linked to her vanity which causes a big part of her problems throughout the novel.
"Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable" Chapter XXII
I find that this quote really shows how men are in Far from the Madding Crowd so it explains their reactions
""Gabriel," said she, "will you move again please, and let Mr Boldwood come there?" Oak moved in silence back to his original seat." Chapter XXIII Eventide: A Second Declaration
I like this quotation because it conveys a lot of different feelings without expressing them clearly. In this passage we don’t have access to what Gabriel is thinking about when Bathsheba asks him to move. But we know that Oak is jealous because Bathsheba chose Boldwood over him. It leads us to think that Hardy chose to add "in silence" to describe Oak’s action in order to contrast with his state of mind.
"This philosopher's public appearance in Weatherbury promptly followed his arrival there." This quote is from chapter XXV and it is said after the narrator described the two methods of Troy: swearing or flirting. I think it represents the evolution of the narrative voice : we have a real constrast between the first instalment and this one. I also love the fact that it is really sarcastic, we are able to understand more about what the narrator is thinking as well as having a criticism on the characters. Based only on his encounter with Bathsheba the reader might have thought that Troy was only a young respectable man but here we have a new perspective.
I chose a quotation from chapter XXII : « To an outsider there was not much to complain of his remark, but to Oak, who knew Bathsheba to be well aware that she herself was the cause of the poor ewe’s wound because she had wounded the ewe’s shearer in a still more vital part. »
I really like this quotation because it, according me, illustrates several ideas of the book. First the motif of the gaze which is here very important, blended with the idea of judgment over Gabriel’s « clumsiness ». There is also the fact that Bathsheba does not seem to be very considerate toward Oak’s feeling. She is very well aware of them, they have both acknowledged them, but they seem unimportant to her as if she could hurt Gabriel over and over without fearing the consequences. Finally this quotation shows that Oak can make mistakes, he is even failing what he is supposed to be an expert at : sheep shearing. He is not perfect and the quote depicts his loss of power and the power that Bathsheba holds over him.
This quotation "Because you are so distracting - and I am so distracted"from Troy from chapter XXVI illustrates exactly Troy's flatteries. He knows exactly what to say to make Bathsheba fall for him. Hardy also plays with words when he uses "distract "two times which shows he insists on this sentence and so that it is important.
Chapter XXIV : the fir plantation
ReplyDelete"for his gaze was too strong to be received pointblank with her own"
Although this quote is quite obvious, I think it clearly foreshadows the position of Bathsheba in the relationship she will have with Troy. For the first time, she is really powerless and in the "inferior" position. It shows the power that Troy have and will have on her. This quote also shows the role of the gaze that is presented throughout the novel.
Chapter XXI: "Troubles in the fold"
ReplyDeleteWhen Bathsheba called for Gabriel's help after the quarrelled: '"Gabriel, will you stay on with me"? she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips quite together again at the end, because there was going to be another smile soon.
"I will", said Gabriel.
And she smiled on him again.'
This quote represents for me the beautiful relationship that links Oak to Bathsheba, founded on peace, respect and friendship.
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ReplyDeleteI choose the quote "it was a fatal omission of Boldwood's thzt he had never once told her she was beautiful" at the end of chapter XXIV the fir plantation.
ReplyDeleteI think this quote sums up both Boldwood's and Troy's personnalities. One really wants Bathsheba , but doesn't know her it is just an obsession and the other use flattery in order ''to get'' the women he wants.
In the beginning of the book Bathsheba is described as vain and aware of her beauty. Thus Bathsheba might be more attracted by Troy since he has a better condition and he is flattering her. It does foreshadow the Troy/Bathsheba relationship.
I chose "He looked hard into her eyes when she raised them fo a moment: Bathsheba looked down again"
ReplyDeleteI chose this quote because I think it shows quite well the fact that for the first time Bathsheba looses power and looks down. Troy therefore seems to be the analogy of the powerful man of society. Contrary to what we would think (that Bathsheba, who always want to dominate and do not allow anyone to disagree with her would hate being controlled and in a submissive position), Bathsheba seems to like this authority and manly figure and she is so confused by herself liking this that she does not know how to react "Bathsheba was vexed she hardly knew why".
I chose a quotation extracted from Chapter XXI. It occurs when Bathsheba decides to send Gabriel a note to make him come back.
ReplyDelete" "Do not desert me, Gabriel !"
She looked a little redder in refolding it, closed her lips as if thereby to suspend till too late the action of conscience in examining whether such strategy were justifiable."
I think this passage really shows how Bathsheba knows how to get what she wants from people. She knew exactly what she had to write to make Gabriel come back. It also clearly highlights the fact that she is not always confident in what she does ('examining whether such strategy was justifiable'). She seems a little ashamed to 'play' with people (seen through her blushing). However she does everything that is necessary to obtain what she needs.
Although the words she wrote at the bottom of the note seem very exaggerated and overdramatic, they still are effective, as Oak will come back precisely because of them.
I chose a quotation from Chapter XXIX "Particulars Of A Twilight Walk"
ReplyDelete"Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse then a weak women who has never had any strength to throw away."
I like this quotation because of the numerous repetitions of words that emphasizes their meaning, like the word "self-reliant" which really states the fact that Bathsheba is an independent woman, a strong one but her being so confident also makes her love for Troy more dangerous. By reading this quotation we also understand that her feelings for Troy will weaken her and make us see her in a position with men that we've never seen her in before.
Chapter 24 " His sudden appearance was to darkness what the sound of a trumper is to silence ". I chose this quotation because it shows the affect Troy has when he arrives in the book, he changes the atmosphere. It forshadows the events to come and the way Troy will create problems. It also describes some of Troy's character, he is always noticed.
ReplyDeleteChapter 23 ""I will try to love you", she was saying in a trembling voice quite unlike her usual self-confidence."; I chose this quotation because it really represents Bathsheba's opinion about Boldwood at this point in the book, it emphasises the decreasing of Bathsheba's power and it also shows a side of Bathsheba that we did not really get to see before in the novel.
ReplyDeleteI have chosen a quote from Chapter XXIV, during the odd meeting of Bathsheba and Troy:
ReplyDelete“The contrast of this revelation with her anticipations of some sinister figure in sombre garb was so great that it had upon her the effect of a fairy transformation”
I have chosen this quotation because it seems to me that it defines Troy for the rest of the novel. Troy always seems to arrive in dark and sombre situations, and hence always makes a contrast, by seeming lighter and having more qualities than the characters who were present before. Many examples can be given, such as when Troy arrives in Weatherbury, and Bathsheba is in the middle of a dilemma with marrying Boldwood, and Troy’s arrival gives her a lighter person to turn to.
Paradoxically, as we learn more and more about Troy’s character, we notice that he seems better than his surroundings on the outside but in reality makes the situations he is caught into much darker and sinister than they had originally been.
I chose a quotation from Chapter 22, "The great Barn and the sheep shearers".
ReplyDelete"In these Wessex nooks the busy outsider's ancient times are only old, his old times are still new; his present is futurity."
I chose this quotation because I think it represents and explicits exactly what Hardy tries to convey in this novel about countryside. Through the exemple of the imaginary region of Wessex, the author shows how time in the countryside goes by in a very different way. In the city everything changes really quickly whereas villages can stay the same for years.
It creates a particular atmosphere, almost unreal, in which the time is about to stop.
"It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful."
ReplyDeleteI find this quotation extremely important because it foreshadows Bathsheba's relationship with Troy. I also find this quotation interesting since it shows how both of these relationships (between Bathsheba and Troy, and Bathsheba and Boldwood) are unsusual. One the one hand, we have Boldwood who seems to want to possess her as an object and therefore never actually wooed her or complimented her. On the other hand, we have Troy who seems to manipulate her through her vanity and over-compliment her.
I chose a quotation from Chapter XXIV.
ReplyDelete"You are a prisoner miss : it is no use blinking the matter"
Troy's words show a clear double meaning as he calls Bathsheba a prisoner here, it foreshadows the fact that later on, she will be emprisoned both physically and mentally. Indeed, she will no longer be able to escape him as he weakened her and took every once of indepence and self control she might have had left.
"To an outsider there was not much to complain of in this remark, but to Oak, who knew Bathsheba to be well aware that she herself was the cause of the poor ewe's wound because she had wounded the ewe's shearer in a still more vital part..." Chapter XXII, The Great Barn and the sheep shearers
ReplyDeleteWhat I love about this quotation is the emotions it conveys . On one hand, we've got Bathsheba who, in the middle of the chapter, seems inconsiderate (or at least from my point of view) of Oak's feelings. Just like the previous chapters, gaze plays an important role here. However, the gaze in this chapter doesn't just involve Boldwood and Bathsheba, Oak is also part of it ,"Oak's eyes could not forsake them". In the end, through the gaze we, the readers, are filled with frustration (and perhaps a bit of anger) towards Bathsheba but also makes the focalisation made towards Oak easier to understand and relate to.
And on the other hand, through the lexical field of "pain" such as "wound" which is used twice in this quotation, readers feel a lot of pity towards Oak and the ewe.
Overall, I believe this quotation has a lot of importance in terms of character development and understanding their emotions at this point in time.
"He says beggars mustn't be choosers" chapter XXI page 139
ReplyDeleteIn this quotation we really see that Gabriel, for the first time in the book is in a position of power and can choose not to obey Bathsheba. Gabriel wants her to realise that sometimes things won't go the way she wants and/or that actions and words have consequences. Maybe Hardy wants to show that having too much pride is not always good by forcing Bathsheba to put hers aside for a bit. Moreover by making her powerless and forcing her to bring Gabriel back (and so making her realise she needs him), Hardy helps her; Indeed only he will be trustworthy till the end.
"O miss - I blush to name it - a gay man - a walking ruin to honest girls, so some people say." chapter XXIV page 165
ReplyDeleteThis quotation gives us an accurate view of Troy's character and foreshadows what will happen between him and Bathsheba as well as the extent to which he has harmed Fanny. It also develops Bathsheba's character as from her first inquiry she has found what Troy is really like yet she choses to ignore this information and instead maintain the image she has formed of him. This can be linked to her vanity which causes a big part of her problems throughout the novel.
"Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable" Chapter XXII
ReplyDeleteI find that this quote really shows how men are in Far from the Madding Crowd so it explains their reactions
""Gabriel," said she, "will you move again please, and let Mr Boldwood come there?" Oak moved in silence back to his original seat."
ReplyDeleteChapter XXIII Eventide: A Second Declaration
I like this quotation because it conveys a lot of different feelings without expressing them clearly. In this passage we don’t have access to what Gabriel is thinking about when Bathsheba asks him to move. But we know that Oak is jealous because Bathsheba chose Boldwood over him. It leads us to think that Hardy chose to add "in silence" to describe Oak’s action in order to contrast with his state of mind.
"This philosopher's public appearance in Weatherbury promptly followed his arrival there."
ReplyDeleteThis quote is from chapter XXV and it is said after the narrator described the two methods of Troy: swearing or flirting.
I think it represents the evolution of the narrative voice : we have a real constrast between the first instalment and this one. I also love the fact that it is really sarcastic, we are able to understand more about what the narrator is thinking as well as having a criticism on the characters. Based only on his encounter with Bathsheba the reader might have thought that Troy was only a young respectable man but here we have a new perspective.
I chose a quotation from chapter XXII : « To an outsider there was not much to complain of his remark, but to Oak, who knew Bathsheba to be well aware that she herself was the cause of the poor ewe’s wound because she had wounded the ewe’s shearer in a still more vital part. »
ReplyDeleteI really like this quotation because it, according me, illustrates several ideas of the book.
First the motif of the gaze which is here very important, blended with the idea of judgment over Gabriel’s « clumsiness ».
There is also the fact that Bathsheba does not seem to be very considerate toward Oak’s feeling. She is very well aware of them, they have both acknowledged them, but they seem unimportant to her as if she could hurt Gabriel over and over without fearing the consequences.
Finally this quotation shows that Oak can make mistakes, he is even failing what he is supposed to be an expert at : sheep shearing. He is not perfect and the quote depicts his loss of power and the power that Bathsheba holds over him.
This quotation "Because you are so distracting - and I am so distracted"from Troy from chapter XXVI illustrates exactly Troy's flatteries. He knows exactly what to say to make Bathsheba fall for him. Hardy also plays with words when he uses "distract "two times which shows he insists on this sentence and so that it is important.
ReplyDelete