tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6106309699770986888..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: small and trifling in such close juxtaposition with an infuriated universe - towards a Hardy ethosAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-86714994746121036142015-05-14T20:58:59.155-05:002015-05-14T20:58:59.155-05:00Bathsheba Everdene. All of the authentically rura...Bathsheba Everdene. All of the authentically rural characters have names like this. Gabriel Oak, Joseph Poorgrass, Fanny Robin. You know Baily Pennyways is going to turn out to be a bad dude just from his name.<br /><br />John Crowley does the same thing in <i>Little, Big</i>, a novel about fairies. Hardy is somehow known as a "realist." <br /><br />Anyway, off the track, sorry, there is not exactly an adultery plot because neither Bathsheba nor the David figure are married, and they do not sleep together before getting married - Victorian sensibilities at work - but otherwise, yes, there is a variant of that story.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-10293315332373959812015-05-14T16:01:31.585-05:002015-05-14T16:01:31.585-05:00Bathsheba? Really? Is there an adultery plot?
The...Bathsheba? Really? Is there an adultery plot?<br /><br />The storm scene is good; it's like that lightning-hitting-the-tree scene in "Jane Eyre." I always like it when the world gets personally involved in the story. The gargoyle is a great idea, too. I've only read <i>Jude</i>, and I thought that had cured me of Hardy, but some of this looks pretty cool.scott g.f.baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05726743149139510832noreply@blogger.com