Now Thomas Hardy gets a trigger warning: Warwick university students are told 'Far from the Madding Crowd' contains 'upsetting scenes' about the 'cruelty of nature' and 'rural life'
- Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd depicts the brutality of rural life
- And it has been slapped with a trigger warning by the University of Warwick
- The novel features scenes of 200 sheep being driven off a cliff and dying
- It comes as 1,000 texts were slapped with warnings or removed from uni lists
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'.
'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.
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.
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