![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator is not quite one and the same as the author, and that’s worth remembering: there is a gap between Thomas Hardy the writer and the narrator who tells his story. As you read Chapter XIII think about what the narrator tells us about Bathsheba, and what we are left to find out for ourselves. You will have opportunities to make up your own mind about what kind of third-person narrator Hardy’s is as you read further. During a heavy storm that night, water pours from the church roof through the mouth of a gargoyle, splashes on the grave, and ruins all of his work. It tells about Bathsheba Everdenes life and her relationships with her lonely neighbour William Boldwood, the loyal shepherd Gabriel Oak, and Sergeant Troy. But they stand outside their stories, sometimes judging or telling us what to think about characters, sometimes leaving readers to decide for themselves, or they may conceal information deliberately in order to build suspense. The film, starring Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp and Peter Finch, and directed by John Schlesinger, was Schlesinger's fourth film (and his third collaboration with Christie). ![]() Third-person narrators are often also referred to as omniscient, because they are god-like in their control of their fictional characters and the story that they tell. Far from the Madding Crowd is a 1967 British epic period drama film adapted from Thomas Hardy's 1874 book of the same name. That is, someone who knows all there is to know about what happens, knows exactly who the characters are and what motivates them to do what they do. The story teller of Far From the Madding Crowd is what is known as a third-person narrator. ![]()
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