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. Jude is therefore more like a traditional Marxist literary hero rather than a Greek hero of ... the perfect intellectual woman, but here too he is disillusioned and frustrated. The first time he sees her at work in the ecclesiastical shop, she is designing on zinc the word "Alleluia." Jude is impressed with her beauty and the work she is. He has begun to idealize her. Hardy dem...

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... attention. He was considered the blue blood-with a "name", "that was one of the oldest and proudest in the whole of Louisiana" and Desiree was the adopted child with "obscure origins"(Esposito 1). "He was reminded that she was nameless. What did it matter about a name- (James 63). The social placement of his family was what was very important in society's idea ... more than another possession to him. He viewed her as a black slave, no longer to be envied by his peers. When Armand referred to his child he would use the word "the", showing that he did not associate himself with the baby a...

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