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Jude the Obscure
Naturalism in the novel is almost a secular version of religious fatalism, in that it presumes that people are controlled by inexorable external forces rather than being free agents capable of...
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[NOTE: eNotes allows us to answer one question and one close follow-up, so I'll answer the two I've moved to the top but leave your others as rhetorical background to your thoughts.] This is the...
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If learning and science are equated together, it is easy to see how the rather ambivalent presentation of these factors is presented in the form of the city of Christminster, where Jude hopes to...
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Primarily, this episode suggests that Jude is not a practical person. Rather, he is a dreamer; a romantic. We see his earlier as well when Jude is fired from his first job, having allowed the...
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Jude attaches special significance to biblical names and places, of which Beersheeba is one - a city in the region of modern day Israel. When Jude and Sue begin to move from place to place after...
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Though Jude is willing to go against social conventions and to be an individual before he meets Sue, Jude's individuality is considerably less distinct than Sue's individuality. More than any...
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Religion and social conventions are aligned in this novel. One reinforces the other, with religion forming the perceived basis for morality and moral action in the general populace. However, this...
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Jude's dreams of Christminster are dreams of discovering his place in the world. At home in Marygreen, Jude is a common boy, without parents and without much hope for attaining any position in the...
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Jude's romantic and idealistic approach to life is most evident in the way that he stubbornly pursues his dream of becoming a renowned scholar at Christminster. The circumstances of his life make...
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Jude is only marginally successful in realizing his dreams. His failure is due largely to the circumstances from which he begins but also partly due to his romantic idealism. The success that Jude...
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To put it bluntly, wickedness does not characterize the educational experiences of the characters in this novel. Jude, Phillotson, and Sue each have different relationships to education as a...
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Jude the Obscure
As defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “obscure” has a number of meanings that seem relevant to the life of Jude Fawley, the central character of Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the...
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Religion drives two things in particular in this novel. First, religion and religious ideas initially define Jude's self-image and later his ambition. The moral precepts of Christianity also form...
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Hardy uses a third person point of view which, while generally limited with a focus on Jude, occasionally shifts to other "main" characters in the story. This technique is unusual and gives the...
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Marriage is the central issue in this novel. This is true in the practical aspects of marriage as well as the ideological elements of the institution. Jude's marriage to Sue is the most...
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This novel certainly offers a commentary on the way that marriage was such an institution in Victorian England, and how those that did not "conform" to the expected norms of living in a married...
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Jude, the protagonist of the novel, is a conflicted person. However, the conflicts that exist within his character at the outset of the novel appear to be very different from those that conflict...
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Jude dreams of becoming a scholar. A rather romantic dream, none-the-less, this vision for himself never quite releases its grip on Jude, who comes back again and again to the city where he hoped...
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Arabella and Sue are foil characters of Jude. Arabella represents the earthy, human side of him while Sue shows his spiritual, intellectual traits.
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It is important to also understand the emotional dynamic and gender double standards of behavior for women and for men in the novel Thomas Hardy wrote before 'Jude The Obscure.' This is because the...
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Hardy portrays women in this novel as manipulative and self-serving. According to him, they use the conventions of society to get what they want. Examples are of Jude's marriage. Jude's...
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Hardy's "Jude The Obscure" has several themes, but the most evident is one that recurs in several of Hardy's writings. The morality issue is large. Jude does what he can do the best he can do it....
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I'll give you a sampling of some of the criticism of this novel. The introduction to the eNotes study guide mentions that when the novel was first published it received negative reviews. The theme...
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Little Father Time is an important character in "Jude the Obscure" because he represents Hardy's views on fatalism. Thomas Hardy believed that human actions and destinies are fixed. What happens in...
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One theme in "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy is the contrast between rural and urban culture. Jude begins as a country boy whose love of books and knowledge makes him yearn for the...
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Sue wants to be a teacher. Phillotson is a professor. When Sue goes back to Phillotson, she works as a teaching assistant in his school. She is learning how to be a teacher from Phillotson. This is...
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The rabbit in Chapter Two of the section entitled "At Shaston" most obviously symbolizes entrapment. Entrapment is one of Hardy's major themes in the novel, as he investigates how Sue is...
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I think the pictures you are referring to are the ones found on Sue's dressing table by the school mistress when Sue did not come home the evening she went out with Jude. One of the pictures was...
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I think you are referring to their visit to Wardour Castle which is not really a ruin as they wander through several galleries in the castle. It is only to Sue that a preserved castle would be a...
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With the appearance of Little Father Time, the child that Jude allegedly fathered by Arabella, Jude becomes even more resolved the he and Sue should be married. While Sue is not the boy's real...