Jude The Obscure: Summary

Part I of Essay
Jude the Obscure is a book in which alienation plays a key factor in Jude’s life. Examples of such alienation are Arabella’s leaving Jude, the Schoolmaster’s leaving Jude, and Sue’s relationship with Jude. Jude married Arabella because she is supposed, or pretended to be pr ....

Part II of Essay
.... Hill is sent on a regular basis by the commandant. Jude and Arabella’s marriage is a mistake from the beginning. Jude’s aunt did not like the idea of Jude’s marrying Arabella to begin with. Fawley’s aunt being a baker she made him a bride-cake saying bitterly that it was the last thing she could do for him, poor silly fellow; and that it would have been far better if, instead of living to trouble her, he had gone underground years before with his father and mother. Arabella did not want to tell Jude that she was not pregnant but she d ....