![]() ![]() Jude also leaves his hometown of Marygreen and finally travels to Christminster, finding work as a stonemason. The marriage fails after a few months and Arabella leaves Jude to go to Australia with her family. At 19, Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, the local pig farmer’s daughter, and after a quick courtship and one drunken night, the two are quickly married which also kills any hope of Jude ever attending university. When he is older, Jude is apprenticed to a stonemason and as he learns his trade by day, he studies biblical texts in ancient Greek and Latin by night using old and superseeded copies of the texts. ![]() ![]() Sadly, it seems that from the beginning, Jude is doomed to a life of poverty and bleakness. The story follows Jude Fawley from childhood where he is inspired by a leaving teacher to study and hope to one day become a university student at the collegial town of Christminster, dubbed the most religious town in England. The criticisms Hardy received for Jude caused Hardy to become disillusioned with novel writing which is such a shame because it’s a remarkable book and Hardy is a very talented, if a little bleak, writer. Jude the Obscure is significant for two reasons – one, being Thomas Hardy’s last novel and two, the topics the novel covers. ![]()
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