Tragedy Designed by Fate ----a book report on Jude the Obscure
Tragedy Designed by Fate ----a book report on Jude the Obscure
Written by Thomas Hardy in the 19th century, Jude the Obscure is a masterpiece known by the world. It tells a story of Jude Fawley, the hero, and Sue, the heroine.
Jude Fawley, a village stonemason, was always dreaming of going to the Christminster, a city modeled after Oxford. He spared no efforts to study Latin and Greek by himself. Although he was looked down upon by many people, he was still full of passion and confidence and eager to become a scholar. But his two-year-marriage with Arabella, a superficial woman who abandoned him later was terrible. Then he left for Christminster to pursue his goal and met his cousin Sue, his true love in the meanwhile.
However, Jude failed in career and love, which I think were both fate-designed cases. No matter how diligent he was, Jude was impossible to get higher education because of his working-class identity. University was only available for the upper-class. And this unfair fact couldn’t be changed. In the first chapter, Jude’s teacher Phillotson told him that he could choose his future by hard-working and attending the university. But on the contrast, it adds to the tragic feature.
Compared with Arabella, Sue was a free-spirited and well-educated woman. Before she and Jude lived together, Sue also experienced an unsatisfying marriage with Phillotson. So they were both afraid of getting married because they thought that marriage might ruin their love. They raised three kids including Jude’s elder son delivered by Arabella. However, at the same time, they were at the mercy of social bias for their illegal relationship. They constantly suffered unemployment and had to move from town to town, seeking employment and housing. Happy life no longer existed when Jude’s elder son killed the other children and hung himself. The son left behind a note which simply read, "Done because we are too many." I was astonished when I read this plot. The social
Written by Thomas Hardy in the 19th century, Jude the Obscure is a masterpiece known by the world. It tells a story of Jude Fawley, the hero, and Sue, the heroine.
Jude Fawley, a village stonemason, was always dreaming of going to the Christminster, a city modeled after Oxford. He spared no efforts to study Latin and Greek by himself. Although he was looked down upon by many people, he was still full of passion and confidence and eager to become a scholar. But his two-year-marriage with Arabella, a superficial woman who abandoned him later was terrible. Then he left for Christminster to pursue his goal and met his cousin Sue, his true love in the meanwhile.
However, Jude failed in career and love, which I think were both fate-designed cases. No matter how diligent he was, Jude was impossible to get higher education because of his working-class identity. University was only available for the upper-class. And this unfair fact couldn’t be changed. In the first chapter, Jude’s teacher Phillotson told him that he could choose his future by hard-working and attending the university. But on the contrast, it adds to the tragic feature.
Compared with Arabella, Sue was a free-spirited and well-educated woman. Before she and Jude lived together, Sue also experienced an unsatisfying marriage with Phillotson. So they were both afraid of getting married because they thought that marriage might ruin their love. They raised three kids including Jude’s elder son delivered by Arabella. However, at the same time, they were at the mercy of social bias for their illegal relationship. They constantly suffered unemployment and had to move from town to town, seeking employment and housing. Happy life no longer existed when Jude’s elder son killed the other children and hung himself. The son left behind a note which simply read, "Done because we are too many." I was astonished when I read this plot. The social