Part I: At Marygreen
in Christminster
Jude Fawley
orphan
Part I: At Marygreen
Jude teaches himself Greek and Latin in his spare time .
stonemason
Part I: At Marygreen
Arabella Donn Jude's first wife. She enjoys spending time in bars and in the company of men.
Characters
Richard Phillotson
The schoolmaster who first introduces Jude to the idea of studying at the university. He later marries Sue.
• Arabella Donn
Jude and Arabella get married
Part II: At Christminster
Jude tries not to fall in love with sue
Sue Bridehead
Part II: At Christminster
• shortly introduces Sue to his former schoolteacher, Mr. Phillotson
• Hardy claimed that "no book he had ever written contained less of his own life"
unhappy marriages
several similarities
religious and philosophical questioning
Little Father Time (Little Jude)
Jude and Arabella's son, raised in Australia by Arabella's parents. He is said to have the mind of an old man, though he is a young child.
social unrest
• They have trouble finding lodging because they are not married
Part IV : At Christminster Again
Jude's son has hanged the other two children and himself
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Characters
Jude Fawley
A young man who dreams of studying in Christminster but becomes a stonemason.
Sue Bridehead
Jude's cousin. She is unconventional in her beliefs and education, but marries the schoolmaster Richard Phillotson.
Phillotson and Sue get married
Part III: At Elsewhere
• Little jude
Jude serve as parents to the little boy and have two children of their own.
Part IV : At Christminster Again
• Themes:
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Jude the Obscure
The novel explores several themes of social unrest, especially concerning the institutions of marriage, Christianity, and the university. These themes are developed through Hardy's use of contrasting foils. Jude's Christian faith ﹠Sue's religious scepticism
he gave up writing novels.
Jude the Obscure
• Writing background: Around 1887, Hardy began making notes for a story about a working-man's frustrated attempts to attend the university, perhaps inspired in part by the scholastic failure and suicide of his friend Horace Moule. Originally under the title The Simpletons, then Hearts Insurgent. In 1895, the book was published in London under its present title, Jude the Obscure. In the Preface to the first edition, Hardy provides details of the conception and writing history of the novel, claiming that certain details were inspired by the death of a woman (most likely his cousin, Tryphena Sparks) in 1890.
Jude the Obscure, the last
completed of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial and was first published in book form in 1895. Jude is a workingclass young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue, The themes in the novel revolve around issues of class, education, religion and marriage. when it published, the novel and hardy had been criticized, because of the criticism of Jude the Obscure,