Analysis Of Thomas Hardy's Tess Of The D Urberville And Jude The Obscure

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Garrett Parker
Ms.Gore
English IV
04 April 2017
Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy is a british author known for writing Tess of the D'Urberville and Jude the Obscure. Hardy is also very well-known for writing his poems and stories in a very sad and depressing way. It's like his stories were trying to convey his feelings for his wife and maybe his childhood depending on what poem you read. You can tell what kind of writer Hardy was going to become by looking at his past and his culture. We are going If you will join me we are going to look at a book that Thomas Hardy wrote.

Thomas Hardy was born on June second 1840 in the town of Higher BockHampton, Dorset, England. Hardy was the eldest of four children from Florence Dugdale and Emma Gifford. He …show more content…

Jude the Obscure is about Jude Fawley dreams of studying the University in Christminster, but his background as an orphan raised by his working-class aunt leads him instead into a career as a stonemason. He is inspired by the ambitions of the town schoolmaster,Richard Phillotson, who left for Christminster whem Jude was a child. However Jude falls in love with a young woman named Arabella, is tricked into marrying her, and cannot leave his home village. When their marriage goes sour and Arabella moves to Australia, Jude resolves to go to Christminster at last. However, he finds that his attempts to enroll at the University are met with little enthusiasm. Jude meets his cousin Sue Bridehead and tries not to fall in love with her. He arranges for her to work with Phillotson in order to keep her in Christminster, but is disappointed when he discovers the two are engaged to be married. Once they marry, Jude is not surprised to to find that Sue is not happy with her situation. She can no longer tolerate the relationship and leaves her husband to live with Jude. Both Jude and Sue get divorced, but Sue does not want to remarry. Arabella reveals to Jude that they have a son in Australia, and Jude asks to take him in. Jude and Sue serve as parents to the little boy and have two children of their own. Jude falls ill, and when he recovers, he decides to return to Christminster with his family. They have

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