Romanticism’ In Jude The Obscure
Thomas Hardy is probably known as a novelist, which is how he established himself from 1871 to 1896. He is associated with the English county of Dorset, which he fictionalized into "Wessex". He wrote Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, and Jude the Obscure, for example. But Hardy's view of fate (which was often branded a "pessimist") and his criticism of society, especially in its treatment of women, always drew criticism, and after the reception of Jude (which, by the way, is a bleak novel!), he stopped writing fiction and turned entirely to poetry, with his first volume published in 1898. Hardy lived a long life (1840-1928), so he practically had two careers: one as a ...
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must live in permanent doubt and intellectual crisis; that for such men, to whom traditional beliefs are no longer available, life has become inherently problematic …and that courage, if it is to be found at all, consists in readiness to accept pain while refusing the comforts of certainty.
This was based upon which a relationship is built between male and female is the main idea of “Jude the Obscure”. The security of the relationship depends upon the depth of the foundation. In “ Jude the Obscure” there is no hope for happiness for Jude Fawley, Sue Bridehead, Arabella and Phillotson. Their Romantic ideals are so strongly inherent in their personalities, that they are better off dead than living in this world. In Jude, Hardy exposes more strongly than ever the impracticalities and dangers of Romanticism (the deaths of Jude's children bears testimony to the force of Hardy's vision) in modern society. Hardy creates Jude as a Romantic idealist. But both objects of Jude's ...
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study. However, the warmth of Arabella’s hands kept him busy several hour. The idea of Jude about graduation crashes, as a consequence of this meeting.
H. M. Daleski would refer to the relationship between Jude and Arabella are purely based upon lust. Arabella as her description and behaviour implies, had great sexual vitality. Hardy's rendering of sexuality in both his male and his female characters is marked by its originality and profundity.
We see in the opening pages of the novel, that Hardy shows us that not only does Jude have a strong imagination, but that there is a disparity between his imaginative world and the real world. The strength of Jude's imagination is Romantic: but ...
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