I was looking at random movie clips on youtube and found the adaptation of Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd. This lead to memories of my reading the book for no reason other than passing my bachelors,.But by the time I got to the middle of the book,I had fallen in love with Oak,the man of the story.It's been long since then and I had quite forgotten about the whole thing.Yesterday when I was seeing the clips,the affair began all over again and this time to stay I believe.Thankfully the man who has played Oak in the movie has been chosen well and looks the part.
Anyways what matters most I think is that i needed no image and still need no visuals for this affair.The magic the personality exudes in words and therefore in imagination is quite enough.What a man! He has spoilt all my chances of hope at finding a man on earth!
What makes him absolutely attraction worthy is his likeness to the oriental idea of a detached man of strength and succor.Yes a man with his desires but tied down by none of them.A man who can "toss his winnings at a turn of pitch and toss and will not breathe a word about his loss" !
With all the sheep and his whole future fallen over the cliff, he has only a sigh in response and then a move away from the place in search of work almost immediately!! A strength beyond measure!
Next is the need to be bailiff at the farm of his love,who left his attentions unrequited and a cool acceptance of this fate.No ego,no resentments and can demarcate well between love and duty or cannot at all!
He was head of farm at his village and a mere server now to Bathsheba in her newly inherited farm, and still no change in the man's principles or lookout towards Bathsheba .All is seen as a course of life to be lived until the body drops to naught.To see oneself in this position of giver and giver alone, even in thought seems tormenting.
He still holds concerns for Bathsheba's happiness in his heart and works with an easy focus privy to men who have nothing to lose and all to gain.
Through all her senseless affairs and impulsive mistakes,he is calm and wise.He sees all her troubles with a detached eye and discerns the vanity at every step.No complaints,no harsh words and no mockery! Stays away and does his part and it's only Basthsheba,even through her tribulations drooling for attention from this almost saintly man and yet too proud to say it out loud.
Her play with the stoic Boldwood (neighbour farmer of a good age) for which she gets into deep trouble and then her passionate affair and disastrous marriage to the handsome Troy,all elicit very little from Oak in terms of an assured reaction of hostility.He loves her too much to even care to leave and of course he cannot think of leaving his fellow workers in the lurch at the hands of Bathsheba and her precarious decisions.
And of course in the end he accepts her,for all the farmer friends and for the good of the village and also to help Bathsheba lead a fruitful life from here onward.No man forgives so much! But it's not just his dealings with his lady love,it's the nature of his perception of people around him and his capability of endurance that makes him superlatively noble.
A man who can be unnerved by no one,is brilliant at what he does for he cares for no consequence,a doer of perfection of any little thing he engages with,a lover of humanity and yet needs not a farthing from them,not afraid of perishing therefore lives fully.
Anyways what matters most I think is that i needed no image and still need no visuals for this affair.The magic the personality exudes in words and therefore in imagination is quite enough.What a man! He has spoilt all my chances of hope at finding a man on earth!
What makes him absolutely attraction worthy is his likeness to the oriental idea of a detached man of strength and succor.Yes a man with his desires but tied down by none of them.A man who can "toss his winnings at a turn of pitch and toss and will not breathe a word about his loss" !
With all the sheep and his whole future fallen over the cliff, he has only a sigh in response and then a move away from the place in search of work almost immediately!! A strength beyond measure!
Next is the need to be bailiff at the farm of his love,who left his attentions unrequited and a cool acceptance of this fate.No ego,no resentments and can demarcate well between love and duty or cannot at all!
He was head of farm at his village and a mere server now to Bathsheba in her newly inherited farm, and still no change in the man's principles or lookout towards Bathsheba .All is seen as a course of life to be lived until the body drops to naught.To see oneself in this position of giver and giver alone, even in thought seems tormenting.
He still holds concerns for Bathsheba's happiness in his heart and works with an easy focus privy to men who have nothing to lose and all to gain.
Through all her senseless affairs and impulsive mistakes,he is calm and wise.He sees all her troubles with a detached eye and discerns the vanity at every step.No complaints,no harsh words and no mockery! Stays away and does his part and it's only Basthsheba,even through her tribulations drooling for attention from this almost saintly man and yet too proud to say it out loud.
Her play with the stoic Boldwood (neighbour farmer of a good age) for which she gets into deep trouble and then her passionate affair and disastrous marriage to the handsome Troy,all elicit very little from Oak in terms of an assured reaction of hostility.He loves her too much to even care to leave and of course he cannot think of leaving his fellow workers in the lurch at the hands of Bathsheba and her precarious decisions.
And of course in the end he accepts her,for all the farmer friends and for the good of the village and also to help Bathsheba lead a fruitful life from here onward.No man forgives so much! But it's not just his dealings with his lady love,it's the nature of his perception of people around him and his capability of endurance that makes him superlatively noble.
A man who can be unnerved by no one,is brilliant at what he does for he cares for no consequence,a doer of perfection of any little thing he engages with,a lover of humanity and yet needs not a farthing from them,not afraid of perishing therefore lives fully.
