In Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd", Gabriel Oak is one of the most important characters of the novel and also the hero of the novel. He is one of the most simplified characters of the novel. Hardy describes him in this way:      "When Farmer Oak smiled, the corners of his mouth spread till they were within an unimportant distance of his ears, his eyes were reduced...

Symbolism is one of the important devices which helps in interpreting one writing in more than one levels. It improves the quality of the writing and interest of the readers. Symbolism is the way of suggesting one thing in terms of another. It says something with the help of pretention or disguise.              In "Far from the Madding Crowd", Thomas...

Bathsheba Everdene, an extremely charming and beautiful lady, is the heroine of the novel, "Far from the Madding Crowd", the first popular novel by Thomas Hardy. Like the other heroines of Hardy's novels, such as Eustacia Vye (the heroine of "The Return of the Native") and Tess (the heroine of "Tess of the D'Urbervilles"), Hardy has bestowed all his attention on Bathsheba.   ...

The title always plays an important role in the art of literature. Title gives us an idea of the concept of the writing as well as the author's intention behind the writing.Thus Hardy's "Far from the Madding Crowd" also gives the readers a concept of the theme of  the novel. The title, "Far from the Madding Crowd" is a phrase which occurs in Gray's  "Elegy, Written in a Country...