Jude
Jude’s Fate In A Changing World “We are a little beforehand…”
Wagner Henrietta Română-Engleză II Universitatea “Petru Maior” 02.01.2013 Structure
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“Everybody is getting to feel as we do.We are a little beforehand, that 's all. In fifty, a hundred, years the descendants of these two [a marrying couple] will act and feel worse than we. They will see weltering humanity still more vividly than we do now”.
“If we are happy as we are, what does it matter to anybody?[…] Do you think that when you will have me with you by law, we shall be so happy as we are now? ... Don 't you dread the attitude that insensibly arises out of legal obligation? Don 't you think it is destructive to a passion whose essence is its gratuitousness?”[…]
”I have always striven to do what has pleased me. I well deserved the scourging I have got"
“It is a difficult question, my friends, for any young man—that question I had to grapple with and which thousands are weighing at the present moment in these uprising times—whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and reshape his
Wagner Henrietta Română-Engleză II Universitatea “Petru Maior” 02.01.2013 Structure
Quotations from Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The content of the essay
Questions
Bibliography
“Everybody is getting to feel as we do.We are a little beforehand, that 's all. In fifty, a hundred, years the descendants of these two [a marrying couple] will act and feel worse than we. They will see weltering humanity still more vividly than we do now”.
“If we are happy as we are, what does it matter to anybody?[…] Do you think that when you will have me with you by law, we shall be so happy as we are now? ... Don 't you dread the attitude that insensibly arises out of legal obligation? Don 't you think it is destructive to a passion whose essence is its gratuitousness?”[…]
”I have always striven to do what has pleased me. I well deserved the scourging I have got"
“It is a difficult question, my friends, for any young man—that question I had to grapple with and which thousands are weighing at the present moment in these uprising times—whether to follow uncritically the track he finds himself in, without considering his aptness for it, or to consider what his aptness or bent may be, and reshape his
Bibliography: Macabe, Colin 1979 James Joyce & The Revolution Of The Word: Language Discourse, Society London & Basingstoke: Macmillan Hardy, Thomas Jude The Obscure (1895) Taylor, Dennis ed. Suffolk: Penguin Taylor, Dennis 'The Letter Of What Law? ' in Hardy, Thomas Jude The Obscure(1895) Taylor, Dennis ed. Suffolk: Penguin Casagrande, Peter J. 'Something More To Be Said: Hardy 's Creative Process & The Case Of Tess & Jude ' in Pettit, Charles ed. 1994 New Perspectives On Thomas Hardy, Ipswitch: Macmillan