Far From the Madding Crowd

Genre: Novel.

Author: Thomas Hardy

Date of publication: 1874

Place: Wessex ("partly real, partly dream-country")

Plot: Gabriel and Bathsheba meets and oak falls in love with Bathsheba. But Bathsheba wants someone who is much smarter and stylish person in her life. Then she meets Sergeant Troy. He is romantic in nature and so he makes her impressed with his personality. They both gets married. Then even Gabriel never leaved Bathsheba alone. He works there in farms of Bathsheba. Troy then emerges as negative figure as he asks for money frequently for leaker and all that. He was having affairs also. And then he got news that his lover Fanny Robin goes dead and he confessed that he loved only fanny. Bathsheba first feels disturbed but she manages to realize that Gabriel truly loved her. And finally they meets.

Main Characters: Bathsheba

Sergeant Troy

Fanny Robin

Gabriel Oak

Theme: rural life, love v/s greed, quest for real life.

Major conflict: Bathsheba is not able to make her mind that Gabriel oak is true choice for her.

Rising action:

1) When Gabriel sees Bathsheba for first time, even though she treats him with vanity and pride, Gabriel helps her.

2) At last when finally Gabriel and Bathsheba meets.

Falling action:

1) When Fanny Robin dies. And when we come to know that she was carrying a child with her.

2) When sergeant troy traps Bathsheba and gets married with her.