Soon after, Arabella reappears having fled her Australian husband, who managed a hotel in Sydney, and this complicates matters. This is because of Sue's dislike both of sex and the institution of marriage. Sue and Jude spend some time living together without any sexual relationship. Photochrom of the High Street, Oxford, 1890–1900 Because of this scandal-the fact that Phillotson willingly allows his wife to leave for another man-Phillotson has to give up his career as a schoolmaster.
Sue soon asks Phillotson for permission to leave him for Jude, which he grants, once he realizes how unwilling she is to fulfill what he believes are her marital duties to him. She soon regrets this, because, in addition to being in love with Jude, she is horrified by the notion of sex with her husband. Phillotson, whom she eventually is persuaded to marry, despite the fact that he is some twenty years her senior. But, shortly after this, Jude introduces Sue to his former school teacher, Mr. There, he meets and falls in love with his free-spirited cousin, Sue Bridehead. By this time, Jude has abandoned his classical studies.Īfter Arabella leaves him, Jude moves to Christminster and supports himself as a mason while studying alone, hoping to be able to enter the university later. The marriage is a failure, and Arabella leaves Jude and later emigrates to Australia, where she enters into a bigamous marriage. But before he can try to do this the naïve Jude is seduced by Arabella Donn, a rather coarse, morally lax, and superficial local girl who traps him into marriage by pretending to be pregnant. As a youth, Jude teaches himself Classical Greek and Latin in his spare time, while working first in his great-aunt's bakery, with the hope of entering university. He yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford.
The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex). The novel is concerned in particular with issues of class, education, religion, morality and marriage. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The protagonist, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man he is a stonemason who dreams of becoming a scholar. Jude the Obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy, which began as a magazine serial in December 1894 and was first published in book form in 1895 (though the title page says 1896).
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