But, shortly after this, Jude introduces Sue to his former school teacher, Mr. There, he meets and falls in love with his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead.
By this time, Jude has abandoned his classical studies.Īfter Arabella leaves him, Jude moves to Christminster and supports himself as a mason while studying alone, hoping to be able to enter the university later. The marriage is a failure, and Arabella leaves Jude and later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage. But before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse, morally lax, and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. He yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford. The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex). The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion, morality and marriage.
The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man he is a stonemason who dreams of becoming a scholar. But I don't admit that my failure proved my view to be a wrong one, or that my success would have made it a right one though that's how we appraise such attempts nowadays-I mean, not by their essential soundness, but by their accidental outcomes.Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895 (though the title page says 1896). “It is a difficult question, my friends, for any young man- that question I had to grapple with, and which thousands are weighing at the present moment in these uprising times- whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and re-shape his course accordingly.
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