Blaise's review
Jude the Obscure (Thrift Edition)
by Thomas Hardy
Blaise's review
Jude the Obscure (Thrift Edition) by Thomas Hardy
Blaise's review
rating:
This is one of the most painful stories I have ever read. That being said, Hardy focuses on several themes that require great reflection. On the one hand, it can definitely be taken as a morality play where characters who commit atrocious acts reap devastating consequences. On the other hand, it could be argued Hardy was casting a large part of the blame for the tragedies in the novel on society and their lack of acceptance to Jude and Sue for their acts of impropriety. On this level, the book works well enough because the duality of the situation challenges the reader's beliefs and forces one to consider the lives and fates of its protagonists and the society they lived in.
Where the book does not work for me is on a much more basic level. I did not really care about a single character in the book other than Jude, and I did not care too much for him. He does not seem to learn from his mistakes. He continues to make one mistake after another and he eventually rejects the cons...more
Where the book does not work for me is on a much more basic level. I did not really care about a single character in the book other than Jude, and I did not care too much for him. He does not seem to learn from his mistakes. He continues to make one mistake after another and he eventually rejects the cons...more
