Jude the Obscure Jude the obscure is a novel of pessimistic which is essentially one of the defeated hopes and unrealized aspirations of the hero who belongs to the labouring masses. ... Jude is a youth of hopes and dreams. ... Jude and Sue are combined by sexuality. ... Reasons from Jude himself: Jude is a person of dreams and hopes. ... At different times, Jude the Obscure has been seen as an affront to sexual morality, a radical assault on British social institutions, a pioneering work of feminism, and a fiercely committed socialist polemic. ...

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There can be found several themes in Jude the Obscure, which show and somehow explain the Victorian era and the way people were influenced by social conventions. Unfortunately, the impact was rather negative, even devastating in case of Jude the Obscure. ... Jude becomes wretched and dies. ... Sue is the leading character who establishes important landmarks about the marriage in Jude the Obscure. ... In Jude the Obscure Hardy wants to point out the fact that partners should perceive the act of marriage in accord with nature. ...

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Jude the Obscure Jude Fawley is presented in Hardy's novel as an ordinary, working-class man of humble origins struggling hard to realize his dreams but thwarted by a cruel fate and a pitiless, snobbish social system. ... Part of Jude's tragedy arises from his incurable idealism. ... Jude is impressed with her beauty and the work she is. ... Hardy demonstrates Jude's inaccurate perception of Sue's character. ... The reader is gradually shown how Jude builds a new illusion, this time about his cousin. ...

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Compromising Female Characters in Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d"Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure The novels of Thomas Hardy are intricate and complicated works whose plots seem to be completely planned before the first word is ever actually formed on paper. Though I have no proof of Hardy's method of writing, it is clear that he focuses more on plot development than characterization in the novels Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d"Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. ... But the main reason Hardy uses this method, especially in the tragedies Tess and Jude, is to present...

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Also written around this time, the highly controversial Jude the Obscure could also be cited as another reflection of the tension within his marriage. Aside from this fact, Hardy's reputation did not falter and he created Sue Bridehead, Jude's main heroine. When Jude was written in 1895, society was quickly modernizing and the role of women slowly but surely was changing. ... Guerard who believes while Hardy wrote a number of compelling leading ladies into his works, he only created two men of more than average interest, Jude the Obscure's Jude Fawley and The Mayor of Casterbrid...

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In 1870 Thomas Hardy travelled to Cornwall, where he met and fell in love with Emma Gilford, his first wife. Emma's death, on the November 27th 1912, inspired some of Hardy's most raw and best work. "The Going" by Thomas Hardy is one of many poems written by Hardy after his wife's death. Between 19...

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It may be said that Jude, Karl and Smith were more sinned against than sinned. ... Jude, of Jude the Obscure is another protagonist which faces the pressures of oppression, only on an entirely different plane. ... Because of this circumstance, Jude's marriage with Arabella was compelled, as it was seen as shameful to have a child out of wedlock: There seemed to him, vaguely and dimly, something wrong in a social ritual which made necessary a canceling of well-formed schemes involving years of thought and labour contributing his units of work to the general progress of his generation...

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Thomas Hardy was born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1840. His first job was an architect and he worked in London and Dorset for ten years. Hardy began his writing career as a novelist and was soon successful enough to leave the field of architecture for writing. His novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles a...

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The Wessex girl Eustacia, the mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the d'Urbervills and stone-mason Jude, as described by Hardy, vibrate our heart with the profundity of tragic vision and intensity of tragic feeling. ... When the child of the couple died tragically, Sue cried to Jude distressingly, "Fate has given us this stab in the back for being such fools as to take Nature at her word!" ... Jude the Obscure. ...

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He trained as an Architect and pursued this to 1874 when he wrote his novel Far From The Madding Crowd which was successful and allowed hardy to devote himself to writing he continued writing novels till 1895 when he gave up fiction as he latest novel Jude The Obscure was condemned in reviews as an immoral attack on the institution of marriage. ...

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Thomas Hardy was born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1840. His first job was an architect and he worked in London and Dorset for ten years. Hardy began his writing career as a novelist and was soon successful enough to leave the field of architecture for writing. His novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles ...

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"Dover Beach" and "The Impercipient" a comparison During the Victorian period Britain experienced many changes. She was named "The workshop of the world". She controlled a vast empire which obtained raw materials for factories and territories in Britain's fast-growing cities. India was known as the "jewel in the crown" of our empire. The British also had attempted to spread Christianity throughout these territories. ...

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An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. The adjective "Victorian" was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation's mounting pride in its institutions and commercial success. That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. Arra...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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