Introduction and Notes by Norman Vance, Professor of English,
University of Sussex. Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with
intellectual aspirations. Frustrated by poverty and the
indifference of the academic institutions at the University of
Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his
relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead. But
life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy
occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair. Hardy's
portrait of Jude, the idealist and dreamer who is a prisoner of his
own physical nature, is one of the most haunting and desperate of
his creations. Jude the Obscure is a dark yet compassionate account
of the insurmountable frustrations of human existence which reflect
Hardy's yearning for the spiritual values of the past and his
despair at their decline.
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