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The passage shows Bathsheba, a wealthy farmer, watching Sergeant Troy’s swordsmanship and reacting as a caterpillar is removed from her clothing. 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In this extract, Bathsheba, a wealthy farmer, has just been watching a display of swordsmanship by Sergeant Troy, a soldier who has been stationed nearby. Having just cut off a lock of her hair, Troy asks Bathsheba to remain still once more.  \nSample question  \nExamine the view that Hardy presents Troy as an idealised hero in this extract. Make close reference to the writer’s methods in your response.  \nExtract  \n\"No—no! I am afraid of you—indeed I am!\" she cried.  \n\"I won't touch you at all—not even your hair. I am only going to kill that caterpillar settling on you. Now: still!\"  \nIt appeared that a caterpillar brushed from the ferns in passing had chosen the front of her boddice as his resting place. She saw the point glisten towards her bosom and seemingly enter it. Bathsheba closed her eyes in the full persuasion that she was killed at last. However, feeling just as usual, she opened them again.  \n\"There it is, look,\" said the sergeant, holding his sword before her eyes. The caterpillar was spitted upon its point.  \n\"Why it is magic!\" said Bathsheba, amazed.  \n\"O no-dexterity. I merely gave point to your bosom where the caterpillar was, and instead of running you through checked the extension a thousandth of an inch short of your surface.\"  \n\"But how could you chop off a curl of my hair with a sword that has no edge?\"  \n\"No edge! This sword will shave like a razor. Look here.\" He touched the palm of his hand with the blade, and then, lifting it, showed her a thin shaving of scarfskin dangling therefrom.  \n\"But you said before beginning that it was blunt and couldn't cut me!\"  \n\"That was to get you to stand still, and so make sure of your safety. The risk of injuring you through your moving was too great not to force me to tell you a fib to escape it.\"  \nShe shuddered. \"I have been within an inch of my life, and didn’t know it!\"  \n\"More precisely speaking you have been within half an inch of being pared alive two hundred and ninety-five times.\"  \n\"Cruel, cruel, 'tis of you!\"  \n\"You have been perfectly safe nevertheless. My sword never errs.\" And Troy returned the weapon to the scabbard. Bathsheba overcome by a hundred tumultuous feelings resulting from the scene, abstractedly sat down on a tuft of heather.  \n\"I must leave you now,\" said Troy, softly. \"And I'll venture to take and keep this in remembrance of you.\"  \nShe saw him stoop to the grass, pick up the winding lock which he had severed from her manifold tresses, twist it round his fingers, unfasten a button in the breast of his coat, and carefully put it inside. She felt powerless to withstand or deny him. He was altogether too much for her, and Bathsheba seemed as one who, facing a reviving wind, finds it blow so strongly that it stops the breath.  \nHe drew near and said, \"I must be leaving you.\" He drew nearer still. A minute later and she saw his scarlet form disappear amid the ferny thicket, almost in a flash, like a brand swiftly waved.  \nThat minute's interval had brought the blood beating into her face, set her stinging as if aflame to the very hollows of her feet, and enlarged emotion to a compass which quite swamped thought. It had brought upon her a stroke resulting, as did that of Moses in Horeb, in a liquid stream—here a stream of tears. She felt like one who has sinned a great sin.  \nThe circumstance had been the gentle dip of Troy's mouth downwards upon her own. He had kissed her.","cbCaisPelHbrXBjV","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaisPelHbrXBjV","pdf",133383,"English","# Sample question\n## Examine the view Hardy presents Troy as an idealised hero\n# Extract","[{\"question\":\"What is the context of the extract involving Troy and Bathsheba?\",\"answer\":\"Bathsheba has been watching Sergeant Troy’s swordsmanship nearby when he asks her to remain still. The scene turns when a caterpillar lands on her clothing and Troy demonstrates how he removes it.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the sample question asking you to do?\",\"answer\":\"Examine the view that Hardy presents Troy as an idealised hero in the extract, using close reference to the writer’s methods.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Troy’s swordsmanship and explanation affect Bathsheba’s reactions?\",\"answer\":\"Bathsheba is amazed and later shaken by how close she believes she came to harm. Troy reframes the danger, emphasizes his control, and the moment ends with him kissing her and departing.\"}]","Far From the Madding Crowd - Examine Troy as an idealised hero | PDF"]