THE INFLUENCE OF CHANCE AND TIME IN THE SHAPING OF MAN’S DESTINY

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  • ADEBOLA TIMOTHY ALABI C.N.S DIVISION, FACULTY OF ARTS UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN

Abstract

In Thomas Herdy’s fourth novel: Far from the Madding crowd,the citizen’s “Then” is the rustic’s “now”’. Thus a changeless rigid and uncompromising village is set against human beings who can never remain immobile!. it is this scene that shapes the action in the novel. Time and chance are the cords that binds all the episodes concerning each character irrevocably to them. Bathsheba Everdeen , the heroine , and all the major characters are thoroughly ‘beaten “by time and chance. The author successfully uses time and chance to subdue Everdeen to a mature, disillusioned and knowledgeable adult. One can see that time and chance indeed happen to all. At work is an impilicit moral judgement which appears to work against the society, or the inscrutable nature of the universe with its chance of destruction or reform. And man often finds it difficult which is preferable!. The lesson here is man, like Gabriel Oak, through sheer initiatives, endurance and ability to adapt in spite of time and chance, should reach out through to a successful and happy position/ending in life.

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Published

2005-06-15

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