Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy

 Thinking Activity: 

This blog is a response to Thinking Activity of Thomas Hardy's Jude The Obscure assigned by Dr. Dilip Barad Sir, the Department of English, MKBU. In this blog I'm going to discuss about the question of Thomas Hardy's " Jude The Obscure".

Question 1) What is the Significance of epigraph written by Hardy - 'Letter Killeth' - for this novel, Jude the Obscure.

Response:

Introduction 

This novel is written by Thomas Hardy.

In these novel as in the starting of title we can understand the title which is Jude the Obscure where the word Obscure means Unknown which is hard to understand from where it starts with the Character Jude is the boy who was very small and he was an Orphan Child who lives with his aunt Drusilla who raised him. Who wants to follow the example of his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminister to take a university degree and Ordained. Where Jude is leaving with his aunt and helps his aunt in her bakery. And he tries hard to study and to move himself to Christminister for further study  and once he meets to Arabella and she forces him towards the marriage and he marries with her when afterwards she moves to Australia and Jude goes to Christminister's university where he was having one aspiration to go there and study and become something of himself good. Then again there also his cousin meets him who was Sue Bridehead who disturbs him in the university also and where he falls in love with her and where Sue wanted to work so Jude takes her to his Mr. Phillotson who gives her the job of training the students.

So in these way I will not write the similar thing as explained in the novel "Jude the Obscure" by Thomas Hardy. But I will explain in short the epigraph "Letter Killeth" in Thomas Hardy's " Jude the Obscure" means that strict rules and conventions which harms or" kills' his own individual spirit and happiness. 

Conclusion:

In the noivel, it highlights how Society's rigid norms and traditions lead to suffering and tragedy for the characters, showing the Conflict between Societal expectations and personal desires.

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