Hello Friends,
Introduction
When related
to the events in Far from the Madding
Crowd, for it seems to uphold a vision of time as purely haphazard movement:
“History is rather a stream than a tree. There is nothing organic in its shape,
nothing systematic in its development. It flows on like a thunderstorm-rill by
a road-side; now a straw turns it this way, now a tiny barrier of sand that”.
The metaphors used here clearly recall those characterising Oak and Troy.
Theme:
Far from the Madding Crowd, since Oak is explicitly associated to
the image of the rooted tree and the stability of the pedigree while Troy lives in a world of constant flux
and uncertainty, merely drifting with the events and ending up carried away by
the tide of a wild sea. And yet the striking thing is that the author in real
life seemed to take positions actually opposed to the conservative vision
illustrated in his early novels, and to stand rather by the side of the
“modern”, though immoral, character. Hardy thus seems to have been aware that
the movement of history was not as clearly stratified and understandable as he
had dreamt of it in his fiction.
This throws a new
light on the novel, by showing that the more clear-sighted conception is not necessarily that of villagers
clinging to an apparently rational organisation of the world. Hardy’s
conclusion is far more sceptical than appears in the relatively protected world
of Weatherbury, and consists in saying that the world.
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