Jude the Obscure Main Characters and Setting
- 1. Jude the Obscure Main Characters and Setting Presented by: Bhavna Sosa
- 2. Name : Bhavna Sosa Email ID : [email protected] Enrollment no. 4096206420210034 Paper no. 104 Literature of victorians Presentation Topic : Jude the Obscure Main Characters and Setting
- 3. Thomas Hardy : (1840 – 1927) •Born in Stinsford, Dorset , England on 1840. • He was an English novelist, Poet and short story writer. •Died in Dorchester, Dorset, England on 1928.
- 4. Jude the Obscure “ Well I’m an outsider to the end of the day!” - Thomas Hardy
- 5. About Novel : • Written by Tomas Hardy • Published in 1894 -1895 in Harper’s New Monthly as Hearts Insurgent Jude the Obscure published in 1895, met with an even stronger negative response from Victorian public. • It is the last fiction. • The entire environment of the novel is gloomy and circling around a protagonist Jude and his love for education and later his saxual life.
- 6. Main Characters : Jude : Jude is the protagonist of the novel. He is a poor villager and his search for education leads him to indulge in a sexual life. And he dies in the novel. Mr. Phillotson : Mr. Pillotson is the inspiration of Jude in the start of the story and later he marriage lover of Jude.
- 7. ... •He is polite person throughout the novel Arabella Donn : She is the first lover of Jude and she is a daughter of a pig farmer . She works at inns.
- 8. ... Sue Bridehead : •She is the second lover and first cousin of Jude. •The novel revolves around the life of her and Jude relationship,mainly.
- 9. Settings : •The novel is written in Wessex, England and there is much critique over the Victorian models of Religion and Christianity. •The novel contains a total six parts. •And each part of the novel has a different setting in England.
- 10. ... •These settings are : 1. First part at Marygreen, 2. Second part at Christminister, 3. Third part at Melchester, 4. Four part at Shaston, 5. Fift part at Aldbrickham and Elsewhere, 6. Sixth part at Christminister again.
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