It is easy for the modern reader to dislike Sue, even, as D. H. Lawrence did, to make her into the villain of the book. (Lawrence thought Sue represented everything that was wrong with modern women.) Jude, as well as Hardy, obviously sees her as charming, lively, intelligent, interesting, and […]
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Jude is obscure in that he comes from uncertain origins, struggles largely unnoticed to realize his aspirations, and dies without having made any mark on the world. He is also obscure in the sense of being ambiguous: he is divided internally, and the conflicts range all the way from that […]
Read more Character Analysis Jude FawleySummary and Analysis Part 6: Chapter 11
Summary On Remembrance Day Arabella, impatient to be off to the festivities, leaves Jude asleep and alone. He awakens, asks for water, recognizes what holiday it is, and repeats some verses from Job. Later, Arabella breaks away long enough to look in on Jude, who she discovers is dead. She […]
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Summary Jude often muses on “the defeat of his early aims” and thinks of the possible changes in the colleges to benefit people like himself. Though he tells Arabella he doesn’t want Sue to know about him, when Mrs. Edlin calls he asks about Sue and is startled to discover […]
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Summary Jude and Arabella are as incompatible now as they were the first time they were married, she complaining about his always being ill and he wishing he were dead. When Jude asks her to write to Sue for him, inviting her to visit, Arabella insults Sue, and he is […]
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Summary In Christminster Arabella comes to Jude’s lodgings, saying she has nowhere to go and asking him to take her in. Eventually he does give her a place to sleep, and when she asks him if he knows of the wedding, he is irritable about the subject. Another day, she […]
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Summary Sue goes to Marygreen and Phillotson’s house, and when Phillotson greets her with a kiss she shrinks from him. The wedding is to be the next day, and she is to stay with Mrs. Edlin. When Sue refuses to wear an attractive nightgown, indeed destroys it, Mrs. Edlin tells […]
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Summary During her convalescence Sue says she is beaten and must conform, and Jude asserts he belongs to “that vast band of men shunned by the virtuous-the men called seducers.” She still feels she belongs to Phillotson. Jude is aware of the fact that he and Sue are going in […]
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Summary Jude has planned it so they arrive on Remembrance Day (anniversary of founding of the university), and instead of looking for lodgings he wants to view the festivities. But when he sees young men from the colleges, he feels it will be “Humiliation Day” for him. He passes the […]
Read more Summary and Analysis Part 6: Chapters 1-2Summary and Analysis Part 5: Chapters 7-8
Summary Two and a half years pass, and Jude and Sue are living at Kennetbridge, not far from Marygreen, Jude having worked in many places over the years and still unchanged in his refusal to work on churches. During the time of the spring fair, Arabella comes with her friend […]
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