Far and Away
石丽媛
I went into this book blindly, knowing little about the plot that lay
ahead or even the genre. It has been described by some as romantic
fiction. But I think this is too simplistic a title and and maybe
slightly off-putting to some. Hardye steps into Greek Tragedy when the
unwitting and churlish actions of our young protagonist, Bathsheba
Everdene, result in a love tryst between three suitors with tragic
consequenses. The book is essentially a journey for Bathsheba into
womanhood not unlike the journey that Scarlett O‘Hara makes in Gone with
the Wind who also has to overcome great tragedy in order to realise her
own strength. Unlike this heroin, however, Bathsheba is more the
instrument of chaos and indecion and part of her journey is that she
accepts what she has caused and tries to make it right. Hardye avoids
making this into moral stricture but deviates from the Greek Tragedy
model by giving us a happy ending not atypical of 19C serialised
fiction. Quite often an author‘s voice creeps into their writing and
the reader becomes aware that they are not in fact walking the hills and
dales of fictional Wessex but are at the pen nib of a writ
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