“Hey Jude, don't be afraidYou were made to go out and get herThe minute you let her under your skinThen you begin to make it better” I would caution anyone against taking romantic advice from Sir Paul McCartney, splendid music legend that he is. This is especially true for a Thomas Hardy protagonist...
Jude the Obscure has a (deserved) reputation as a difficult, anti-marriage novel. Like all of the other Hardy novels I've read, lives spin out of control and no one finds happiness. Jude's sin, as I saw it, was that he wanted what he couldn't have. As a child, Jude built up a dream to be a scholar i...
Jude is an enigma to me. For all his radical ideals and lofty aspirations he is tragically under the influence of the two women in his life. He is twice tricked into marriage by one of them and willingly submits to the tempestuous cravings of the other because he views her as his soulmate and true w...
I thought this novel was really well written, but did make for dense reading in parts. I was stunned at how dark the plot turned out to be - with the unhappy marriages, incest, childhood depression, class struggles... there seemed to be only glimpses of sunshine in Jude's life but I think that's wha...
This was my first Hardy novel and it won't be my last, with any luck. I don't know if all of his books are like this, as I've been told this was particularly gloomy, but I did like it. There wasn't really a plot, per se, but it was interesting more in the way a soap opera gets you involved in the ch...
I had recorded the movie "Jude" (1996: with Christopher Eccleston and Kate Winslet) and decided to see it a few days ago and then to read the book, which I did. The reason why I decided to see the film first (contrary to what I normally do), is that I had an idea I wouldn't like the book that much....
This is Hardy's best book. It was considered so shocking and there was such a negative reaction to it that Hardy gave up writing novels for ever more.It is quite a strange book. It is the story of Jude who is a stonemason by trade despite being a scholar by inclination. Jude also becomes involved...
Just finished 'Jude' last night. I am so glad that I read all of Hardy's other novels before this one. If this was the first novel I read of Hardy I probably wouldn't be such a HUGE fan of his works. The first novel I read of his was 'Far from the Madding Crowd' which I LOVED. Then 'Desperate Measur...
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