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Whether you are of the opinion that love is a wonderful thing, love knows no boundaries, or love is blind, one fact remains constant: Love is like a snowflake—no two are ever exactly alike. In Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy, the heroine, Bathsheba ....

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.... she encounters and eventually overcomes throughout her romantic escapades. Initially, Bathsheba’s character was high-spirited, feminine, naïve and self-centered. This is the first impression she gives Gabriel Oak, who eventually becomes a suitor, when she encounters him at the beginning of the story. The first time Gabriel laid eyes on Bathsheba, she was gazing admiringly at her own reflection in her pocket mirror. Gabriel realized immediately that her greatest fault was “what it is always . . . vanity.” Gabriel, although impressed by Bathsheba’s beauty and vivacity, does not immediately begin to court her. He proposes marriage to he ....