Talk:Far from the Madding Crowd

message: "Non-tragic"?? I would hardly describe the book's end as a classic happy ending.
"Bathsheba smiled (for she never laughed readily now)"...........I don't see how poor old Bathsheba making do with old Gabriel after the lovers she cared for did each other over is really a happy end! "Making do" is very much the key phrase here; she doesn't fall in love with Gabriel at the end, she turns to him by default after the dire consequences.
Tragic after all?
-BG  12/10/05
Even if the ending is heartbreaking the story is not necessarily a tragedy.  Generally, a story needs other charactersitics such as hamartia and anagnorisis to be a true tragedy.  Erroneous01 17:04, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What?! Did you people read this novel? After a long friendship, the only real friendship Bathsheba has known, she finally realizes she has come to love Gabriel. And this is "tragic" and "heartbreaking"? Clarityfiend 06:52, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I once saw a plot summary for "Bambi" which read: Baby deer grows up. This one could read: Bathsheba grows up. (only joking, however with a serious intent i.e. agreement with the thrust of the above comments). Tony 1212 (talk) 18:17, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warning, Plot Details Follow But.... 

message: The relationship between Boldwood and Bathsheba, while grotesque, is not quite the stalker-and-victim situation described here. Moreover, Bathsheba does gives Boldwood some encouragement beyond the flirtatious valentine. See the second half of chapter 23; Bathsheba, guilt-stricken over the passion she so carelessly roused, and yet perversely flattered by the worship of a man previously deemed an emotional fortress, gives Boldwood permission to continue to hope:
"I have every reason to hope that at the end of the five or six weeks, between this time and harvest, that you say you are going to be away from home, I shall be able to promise to be your wife," she said firmly. "But remember this distinctly, I don't promise yet."
"It is enough; I don't ask more. I can wait on those dear words. And now, Miss Everdene, good-night!"
"Good-night," she said graciously--almost tenderly; and Boldwood withdrew with a serene smile.
Bathsheba knew more of him now; he had entirely bared his heart before her, even until he had almost worn in her eyes the sorry look of  a grand bird without the feathers that make it grand. She had been awestruck at her pst temerity, and was struggling to make amends without thinking whether the sin quite deserved the penalty she was schooling herself to pay.
Bathsheba, it would seem, is steeling herself to atone for her guilt by marrying this stiff; and Boldwood, in the selfishness of his passion, is willing to take her on those terms. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ilyaunfois (talk • contribs) 18:25, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boldwood and Bathsheba 

message: But she does yawn!
Ilyaunfois 21:40, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but without the rest of the conversation, it makes her look heartless. Clarityfiend 00:00, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yawn gives wrong impression of Bathsheba 

message: Shouldn't there be some note somewhere in here that this book is used by Calgary Corpus as one of a set of files used to test the performance of data compression algorithms?  Most data compression algorithms when reported on include an analysis of their performance on this list of files.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.45.169.2 (talk) 14:33, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: And it is deleted from the article.  --Prairieplant (talk) 06:02, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calgary Corpus 

message: This book is clearly a play (a very loose play on it, but nonetheless a play of on it) on the Bible story of Bathsheba, David and Uriah. You've got the girl named Bathsheba, the "King" who wants her badly enough to kill her husband, the soldier husband who's so indifferent to his wife and to married life he'd rather stay abroad. Etc etc. Hardy subverts it in a fun way by having a righteous third party swoop in and get the girl, but it's clear what he's playing off of.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.227.77.90 (talk) 06:37, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why have an 'analysis' section if you're not even going to mention the Bible story?  

message: This article lacks a section on Reviews or Critical Reception. The lead paragraph says it was well received, but where is text in the article supporting that sentence? Plot summary is long. I changed title of last subsection, as it was commentary. If Hardy made changes twice over 20 years after the original publication, which version is in the summary? Is there a list of his changes anywhere? Those are ome suggestions to raise the quality of the article. I am not a Hardy fan, but I did read the novel years ago. I am not sure how the article is C Class without Reviews or Critical Response.  --Prairieplant (talk) 06:02, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need section on Reviews, on changes in later editions, and shorter plot summary 

message: According to Under the greenwood tree, that is the first Wessex novel. Isaac Rabinovitch (talk) 08:49, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Wessex Novel? 

message: How is it possible that the place name "Dorset" is mentioned nowhere in the text of the current version of this article?  This situation should be corrected immediately. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 01:37, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Serious omission

message: The section I’ve cited consists entirely of trivia. An ipc section is supposed to demonstrate the impact of the subject on pop culture, but instead every item is literally a reference and nothing more: a borrowing of the title, a paraphrasing of the title, a misuse of the title, a borrowing of individual words from the title and one case of borrowing the surname of one of the characters. Not one in any way demonstrates the impact of the novel on culture. 2603:9001:4500:1C09:833:CD8B:BF6F:8C8E (talk) 18:04, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  “References in popular culture” section is useless trivia