) stated that this novel was a modified pastoral. According to him,РHardy described two love triangles which involved five characters and created plotРcomplication, illustrated the rural- urban contrast through characterization of Troy,РGabriel and Bathsheba, and also depicted many pastoral scenes like the sheep-washing,Рsheep-shearing and shearing-supper in the novel, all of which reflected that this novelРwas a pastoral. But there were many realistic details of actual rural life, which were notРusually found in traditional pastoral literature. So Hardy’s novel was not a traditionalРpastoral, but a modified version of traditional pastoral, in which the manner and theРunderlying attitudes of pastoral were still present but the real details of rural life formedРthe substance of the work.Р12
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