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Thomas hardy novel jude the obscure5/20/2023 The story imitates both the pattern of a Bildungsroman, describing the life of the protagonist from boyhood to his tragic death, and that of the New Woman fiction of the 1890s, with an emancipated, androgynous heroine as a central character. Unlike the earlier novels, Jude is mostly set in modern, urban environment in small drab industrial towns, railway trains, workshops and streets. Besides, Hardy violently attacks the Victorian concepts of class division and marriage as a holy institution. In fact, Hardy openly blames the English educational system, which provided no opportunity for an ambitious but impoverished young man who wanted to study at a university. Jude the Obscure has often been interpreted as an indictment of the society that made it impossible for a working man to obtain higher education. However, Hardy’s social criticism is much more outspoken in Jude than in his earlier novels. Like in Tess, Hardy presents in Jude a conflict of a lonely individual with society. This novel marks the most bitter expression of Hardy’s view of human existence and Victorian society. Homas Hardy’s last and the bleakest novel, Jude the Obscure (1895), which malicious critics nicknamed 'Jude the Obscene,' prompted more violent debate than did Tess of the d’Urbervilles.
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