Jude the Obscure | Ideas for Group Discussion
Most discussions of Jude the Obscure will undoubtedly center on Hardy's controversial views on marriage and education. Perhaps an ideal starting point for discussion would be, does Hardy create a fair representation of the institutions to support his criticism? All the marriages represented in the novel are perfectly dreadful, but is this true because, as Sue maintains, marriage inevitably leads to a diminished love between partners, or do the marriages in this novel fail because of character defects of one or more of the partners (for example, Arabella's dishonesty, Sue's...
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