![]() ![]() ![]() I shall be up before you are awake, I shall be afield before you are up, and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. ![]() Especially given that she has no economic prospects at the time she makes this comment, it seems that she will be forced to sacrifice her independence eventually. At the same time, Bathsheba’s comment is tempered by a pragmatic sense of reality, since she is aware she is likely going to get married eventually. Bathsheba boldly criticizes the way in which she views romantic relationships as disempowering women she believes that when men are interested in wooing a woman, she becomes merely an object to be possessed. She wants to clarify that the reason she ran after him as he was leaving her aunt’s house was not to accept his proposal, but to explain that she does not have other suitors. I hate to be thought men’s property in that way – though possibly I shall be to be had some day.īathsheba speaks these lines early in the novel, when Gabriel first proposes to her. ![]()
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