![]() ![]() Sue’s character has been portrayed as a free-spirited woman who takes things lightly and is not afraid of being judged for her morality or anything else. However, in between the beginning and the end, there are many things that Thomas Hardy, the novelist, has brought in. The novel begins with Jude and ends with Jude. As a novel, this is interesting for the audience of the day however, it was not very ‘suitable’ for the direct audience of Hardy and they lampooned Hardy’s ‘incestuous’ and immoral acts of ‘love’ in the novel. Christian beliefs, the questions of morality and also the dogmatic attitude of the Victorian Era are the chief elements of the plot. Jude Fawley and Sue Bridehead are the central characters in the novel and Jude’s actions, thoughts, life and his eventual death are further centralised to the theme. Like many other novels by Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure also takes a theme of love and tries to conclude it and just like many other works by Hardy fail to deliver a conclusive conclusion, here also, he matches his distrust for the society and ‘organisation’ to the conclusion of his novel. Jude the Obscure is a novel written by Thomas Hardy and it was published as a novel form in the year 1895. ![]()
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