I'm Jagruti Vala and I'm a student of English department, MKBU.
This blog is a part of thinking activity.
In This blog, I want to share some thoughtfully questions and answers about the novel Jude the obscure.
Assigned by Dilip sir.
Here is a brief introduction about the Author Thomas Hardy:-
INTRODUCTION:-
Born:-
2 June 1840
Stinsford, Dorset, England
Died:-
11 January 1928 (aged 87)
Dorchester, Dorset, England
Occupation:-
Novelist, poet, short story writer
Literary movement:-
Victorian literature
Notable works:-
Tess of the d'Urbervilles,
Far from the Madding Crowd,
The Mayor of Casterbridge,
Jude the Obscure.
Here is some questions about the novel Jude the obscure.
QUESTION:-
1. What is the significance of epigraph written by Thomas Hardy " Letter killeth" for this novel Jude the obscure:
ANSWER:-
In the novel Jude the obscure, releted thematically words of the entire novel's epigraph: "THE LETTER KILLETH".
The sentence is the short version of st.paul's words in the book of "CORINTHIANS" in the new testament: who also made us able minister of the new testament, not of the letter but of the spirit: for the Letter killeth, but the spirit given life.
In this quotation st Paul is contrasting the "old convenant" of the old testament (Hebrew Bible) with the " new convenant" created by the teaching of Jesus.
However, Hardy means the letter of lawin religious metters may violet of the Christianity if people do not interpret the method a mercy and compassion.
It means that focusing too much on the letter of the law or rigid rules can lead to spiritual or moral death, rather than a deeper understanding.
The words echo thematically throughout the novel as they apply to marriage and religion.
In a wider context Hardy saw orthodox religion as a soul killing philosophy, and the novel's characters reflecting those who follow the letter inflicting heartlessness, cruelty, abuse and those who do not.
In the context of the novel, it signifies the rigid social and moral constraints of the time, which Jude and the other characters must grapple with.
The epigraph foreshadows the struggles that the characters face due to societal norms and their aspirations for personal freedom and self-discovery.
It underscores the central themes of the novel, such as the conflict between individual desires and societal expectations, which ultimately lead to tragic consequences for the characters.
QUESTION:-
2.It is possible to connect the meaning of the epigraph of "esdras"at the beginning of the first chapter of the novel and the myth of " Bhasmasur" ?
ANSWER:-
The novel "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy does not have an epigraph from the book of "Esdras" (Ezra in the Bible).
The epigraph at the beginning of a novel often sets the tone or provides insight into the story that follows.
Similarly, the myth of "Bhasmasur" is a Hindu legend about a demon who can turn anyone into ashes with a touch.
To establish a connection, you would need to analyze how the themes, motifs, or ideas presented in the epigraph relate to the themes or events in the novel and how they may draw parallels to the myth of "Bhasmasur."
The opening chapter typically sets the stage for the story, but any potential connection between the epigraph and the myth of "Bhasmasur" would be purely speculative, as there's no direct textual link between the two in the context of this novel.
"Jude the Obscure" tells the story of Jude Fawley, a working-class man with aspirations of becoming a scholar, and his struggles in society, education, and love.
The novel explores themes of social class, education, morality, and the constraints of society on individual aspirations.
It's a tragic and critical examination of the limitations imposed on individuals by the society in which they live.
RESEARCH ARTICLE:
1.Symbolic indictment of Christianity.
- Norman Holland
- Uni.of California.
• Jude the obscure Thomas Hardy's transition from fiction to poetry. He stop writing novel.
• meaning of indictment is accusations.
• This novel is a symbolic and also realistic.
• Thomas Hardy's imagery in Jude falls into complex and cluster in a manner almost jacobean and as a result the image take on distinct symbolic over turns.
• The most obvious group of images is that associated with Arabella's intimately.
Arabella: pig imagery
Jude: pig style
Phillotson: phillistin unknown jews
Sue: pig near brussels
• she needs Jude by throwing up pig puzzle at him.
• A central incidents in their choarshiping chassing pigs.
• After she and Jude are married.she keeps pigs and it is the slottery of this pig that leads to the break up and marriage.
• Jude after his first defeat and also hands of society and lives down in a fix style.
• Symbolising his letter defeat and return to Arabella.
• In Sue's case, the pig is near brussels Symbolising her lacke of sexuality and Arabella as.
• Arabella is associated with others receding ideas.
• Marriage is one idea.
• she is throughout the novel pre- occupied with getting living in husband.
• In this way marriage is the link with the sensuality, sue is spices.
• Marriage is dealing with sensuality.
• Another one is drink and drunkenness.
• When Arabella and Jude are coatings they go to a devern.
• she reveals after they are married that sue was ones a bar maid.
• As the wife of devern keeper.
• she uses leaked to get Jude to remarry her at the end.
• Blood is third example.
• There is a pig's blood the slottery but love filter a need from pig' s blood.
• In the novel as a whole, the principle complexity images that of Jews, Christian and pagan represent the imageries.
• In this context the pig images associated with Arabella the unclean animal of the jews.
• The names of the character an important part of this religious imagery. Jude is the most imagery the jews writers in the new testament.
• Who counsels the old testament and laws.
• Jude is a German name of Jews.
• Phillotson name represents the phillistin and that again has a biblical sense of unknown jews people.
• The structure interrelated of the character are equally symbolic.
• Hardy rigidly pairs of the four principles according to treats of aspiration and sexuality.
Arabella
Sue
Jude and
Phillotson
• Jude and Sue some kind of higher life, intellectual life, free life and also liberal life.
• when sue and phillotson in some kind of lower life, social acceptance, socially living in society.
• Jude and Arabella are the sexual and sensual people.
• sue and phillotson are non sexual.both not attracted to the body.
• This, the either conventionally or Jude's sexuality must throughout the novel.
• sue wants to live a higher life when phillotson wants to live a social life.
• Jude is a sexual person and Sue is non sexual.
• And the other hands, Arabella's vergality and Sue's freesidity must throughout Jude' s character.
• sue feeds the higher side of life in Jude's character.
• Arabella feeds the lower side of life in Jude's character.
• Jude's aspirants and the form of religion learning against his sensuality and in the form of weakness for women and drink.
• Sue's aspirants in a term of art and anti- conversational against her lacke of sexuality and certain make of respectability.
• It is shows that Jude and Sue are totally alike in metter of sensuality and religion also.
STRUCTURE OF THE NOVEL: JUDE THE OBSCURE :-
• In the beginning of the novel,
• Sue- secular and rationalist:-
• Express for example in her sympathy with ancient rather than medieval culture.
• Her scorned for conventional religious belief.
• Her buying of pagan status, her reading of giban.
• Jude- conversationally Christian:-
• As his desire to be ordained.
• His reading of standard authors and his love of medieval culture and architecture saws.
• Love and compassion is the most symbol of Christianity that Jude represents that.
• At the end of the novel sue has reverted to conventional belief as evidence by her concern for the sentity of marriage and her desire to performs penance for her sins.
• on the other hands, Jude no longer proffesies old belief and he was more chaotic at the end of the novel.
• This change in beliefs is closely parallel by their marital relationship.
• At first they are seperated by the marriage to other people as they are part of belief.
• As Jude's idea change they are legally freed by divorce and they come to live together. They are to be married infact, but not in name.
• In short They live together but not married.
• when sue return to conventional belief they separate again and remarried with her first spouse.
• They are completely opposite and a different mindset.
• Jude's death as a failure in christ minister and Sue forcing her to go to phillotson back are tricking science of here defeat in life.
• This defeat is a mirror as well in phillotson who at marygreen fallen to the bottom professionally who stiffly refused sue to swear loyalty to him on testaments.
• And to a lesser Arabella, who though he loses jude and loses her vitality.
• Finally this changes and defeat Hardy has embed the theme of his novel.
• Jude and Sue had been caught up in the modern spirit.
• THE MODERN SPIRIT•
• They were struggling to break free inca old ways and have suffering and fail.
• It is that justify Hardy's discription of the novel in the preface, where he says that, "it is Tragedy of unfulfilled Aims".
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