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Revolutions and Evolutions: Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd -…

- - - - Hardy, Life and Work, 1875: 'Yet he had not the slightest intention of writing for ever about sheepfarming, as the reading public was apparently expecting him.'
    - - 'How would the farm go on with nobody to mind it but a woman?' (191)
- - - - '"Why did Troy not leave my treasure alone?" he asked fiercely.' (202)
        
        male rage, objectification, incel loser
    - - 'There were several sets of ladies’ dresses in the piece, of sundry expensive materials; silks and satins, poplins and velvets, all of colours which from Bathsheba’s style of dress might have been judged to be her favourites. There were two muffs, sable and ermine. Above all there was a case of jewellery, containing four heavy gold bracelets and several lockets and rings, all of fine quality and manufacture. These things had been bought in Bath and other towns from time to time, and brought home by stealth. They were all carefully packed in paper, and each package was labelled “Bathsheba Boldwood,” a date being subjoined six years in advance in every instance.' (373)
        
        lowkey sad
- - - - Cixous' Laughter of the Medusa??
    - - 'The eminently modern idea embodied in this example -- of a woman's not becoming necessarily the chattel of her seducer -- impressed Hardy as being one of the first glimmers of woman's enfranchisement; and he made use of it in succeeding years in more than one case in his fiction and verse.' (1882) The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy
    - - female agency, but even independent women need to settle down eventually
    - - women's role: find marriage, then the 'battle' is won - story over
        independent girlboss slay
    - - agency undercut, written by a man :/
        animalistic
        
        'Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occaision. SHe has never had practice in making the best of such a condition.Weakness is doubly weak by being new.' (186)