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Jude the Obscure -The Unfulfilled Dreams - College Term Paper

Jude the Obscure -The Unfulfilled Dreams

The Unfulfilled Dreams

Mohammad al-Kurdi

The "unfulfilled dreams" is a sense shown in Jude the Obscure. Hardy, in fact, described the novel in his preface as dramatizing "a deadly war waged between flesh and spirit." This war causes tragedies; tragedies that are results opposed to what the characters aimed.
Jude Fawley, as a center character in the novel, can represent the aspect of the most unreachable hopes of both the intellectual and the sexual ambitions. Early in life, he is shown as a person who is in love with knowledge. He is attached to the school master, Phillotson, and sees Christminister as the greatest place of knowledge; he regards it as "the city of light," and "a ...

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is not too long, unfortunately, till this dream collapses when this young man meets Arabella Donn who is the call of a woman to a man, and this call is answered by Jude who forgets about studying, and sensuality becomes first.
After finding that he has chosen the wrong way in life, this hopeless Jude has his ambitions revived, and he decides to go to Chistmrnister in order to attain his goals. He falls in love with a cousin of his, Sue Bridehead, although his is not settled yet in that city. The passion of love now envelops him, heart and soul, and his intellectual aims become subsidiary, and he is cursed with the love of flesh again. Not waiting so long, he finds himself the victim of a double disaster when his cousin falls in love with Mr. Phillotson. Jude now fails in looking for knowledge and in obtaining love; in fact he finds himself in hell, "the hell of conscious failure, both in ambition and in love," and he is in despair when this couple, Sue and Phillotson, get ...

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Added: 2/21/2012 07:19:14 AM
Submitted By: mkurdi
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
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