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far from the madding crowd
1- To be “far from the madding crowd†is to be removed, either literally or figuratively, from the frenzied actions of any large crowd or from the bustle of civilization. ( See also under “Literature in English.†)
far from the madding crowd
2- A phrase adapted from the “ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ,†by Thomas Gray: madding means “frenzied.†The lines containing the phrase speak of the people buried in the churchyard: “Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife / Their sober wishes never learned to stray.â€
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It was in that job, while writing an introduction for Thomas Hardy’s “Far From the Madding Crowd,†a book that contrasts the superficial idyll of rural English life with the often harsh realities that accompany it, that Mr. Blythe was first inspired to write “Akenfield.â€
Before writing such classics as “Tess of the d’Urbervilles†and “Far From the Madding Crowd,†Hardy worked for the architect Arthur Blomfield, whose firm was hired in the 1860s for an unappealing job: exhuming human remains, including recently buried ones, from the cemetery to make way for a new railway line.
It is rugged and isolated, home to moose and certainly far from the madding crowd.
When her characters asserted their independence, as in “Far From the Madding Crowd,†or fought for the right to vote in “Suffragette,†you could watch from your privileged vantage point in the present and think, “They were ahead of their time.â€
You’ll find little more than a meager light source in many of the 35-year-old actress’s most recent movies, which include “Far From the Madding Crowd,†set around 1870, “Suffragette,†about equal-rights protests in 1912 Britain, and “Mudbound,†which begins in the year 1939.
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