Essentializing the Feminist Implausibility for Bathsheba to Subvert Patriarchal Dominance in Far from the Madding Crowd

Abstract

Adequate critical attention has been paid to Thomas hardy who has developed a strong aesthetic and artistic interest in the feminist awareness of Bathsheba epitomized in his novel Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) while inadequate critical concern shown for the implausibility for her to subvert the patriarchal dominance she has to be faced with. Thus, this paper will give an overall interpretation of a series of events happened to her to show that in spite of the appropriate and adequate development and improvement of her female awareness that is inclined to enable her to have a good understanding of the historical, cultural, and, social implications of feminism and to make best use of those rich implications to challenge the historical, cultural, and, social dominance of patriarchal history, patriarchal culture, and, patriarchal society in an ambitious fashion and in an aggressive fashion, she has eventually turned out to be unable to subvert the historical, cultural, and, social governance of men in the patriarchal history, patriarchal culture, and, patriarchal society where she lives in a thorough fashion and she has to return to the acceptance of or even submission to the patriarchal history, patriarchal culture, and, patriarchal society she has refused in her previous life and experience, for it is difficult or impossible for her to achieve a great success in subverting the patriarchal mechanism most women have been prisoned in an individual fashion on account of the asymmetrical perceptive and cognitive balance between men and women at that historical moment when the historical, cultural, and, social dominance of men has been popularized in a substantial fashion and in a sufficient fashion in the lives and experiences of men and women as what has been impressed in the aesthetic and artistic production of this novel in a particular fashion.