Story · Britain · 1874
Pass it on
Far from the Madding Crowd
68Worth an evening.
She keeps the farm, a joke valentine does harm, and the steady man is trusted.
The review
Start with the farm, not the suitors. Bathsheba keeps it, and the work is real. One man is steady, one is a soldier, one is ruined by her refusal. A house can read Hardy here. Three men wanting her is not a substitute for the labor, and I was glad the book does not pretend otherwise.
A valentine sent as a joke does real damage. The steady man is the one the book trusts, not the exciting one. I would give it to a teen who thinks a refusal is sport. Somebody is left ruined. That is the note. The farm still standing does not erase it.
Journal
Keep Far from the Madding Crowd in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety is the thin one.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 9Industry
Bathsheba keeps the farm, and that work is treated as real.
- 7Household
Three men want her, and one is ruined by her refusal.
- 5Piety
The book trusts the steady man, not the dazzling mistake.
- 6Courage
Keeping the farm is the risk; a refusal ruins one suitor.
- 6Republic
A farm has people on it who live by how she runs the work.
- 6Temperance
A valentine sent as a joke is not nothing; it does damage.
- 8Truth
The joke note is false, and a man is ruined by taking it.
- 7Stewardship
The farm remains; so does the damage of a joke she sent.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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