![]() ![]() Gabriel does manage to save 57 of the sheep.Īmid these types of scenes, Warwick's English Department put the content note on the novel to alert students to the material which it sees as sensitive. ![]() After this, he kills his inexperienced sheepdog and becomes penniless.Īnd in another chapter, four of Bathsheba's sheep die after eating a field of clover. In one scene, Gabriel's two hundred pregnant ewes are chased by his dog and plunge to their deaths off a cliff. The 19th Century classic work by the famed novelist and poet explores the loves and marriages of Bathsheba Everdene including with faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak. 'Far from the Madding Crowd', which depicts the brutal reality of Victorian rural life, has been slapped with a content warning by the University of Warwick. ![]() One of Thomas Hardy's most popular novels now comes with a trigger warning after students were told it contains 'upsetting scenes' about the 'cruelty of nature' and 'rural life'. ![]()
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