Review of the novel 'Far From the Madding Crowd'

        

'Far From the Madding Crowd'

             ' Far From the Madding Crowd ' is a celebrated novel, that highlights the pastoral world, that exists in ' Wessex' a Southern and Western part of England. It is also fact that ' Far From the Madding Crowd ' features Hardy's first use of the term and idea of 'Wessex', a word that quickly moved from the  realism of the geographical literary to that of social myth.

           'Far From the Madding Crowd ' is a symbolic title by Thomas Hardy. He believes that the pastoral word is peaceful,  indirect contact of nature. This title comes from Thomas Gray's famous 18th century poem, 'Elegy Written in a country Church yard'.

             The central idea of this novel is man and women relationship in the contexts of love and marriage.  Bathsheba , main female character of the novel is confused about marriage as she has three different suitors.  The novel depicts influence of natural on human life  especially in the farmer's world. Hardy makes use of a very effective style in this novel.

              ' Far From the Madding Crowd ' highlight the life of rural area. This is Hardy's first novel to give the name 'Wessex '. The style of Hardy is praise - worthy, well drawn characterization and well knitted plot. That's why this novel possesses a unique position among the novel of Thomas Hardy.