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Jude Fawley dreams of studying at the university in Christminster, but his background as an orphan raised by his working-class aunt leads him instead into a career as a stonemason. He is inspired by the ambitions of the town schoolmaster, Richard Phillotson, who left for Christminster when Jude was a child.
- Thomas Hardy
- 1895
Jude the Obscure takes place in Wessex, England in the Victorian era. Jude Fawley is a poor orphan raised by his great-aunt, but he dreams of studying at the university in Christminster, a nearby town. He is inspired in this dream by his old teacher, Richard Phillotson, who left with similar ambitions when Jude was a child.
Plot summary. The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, who lives in a village in southern England (part of Hardy's fictional county of Wessex ). He yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modelled on Oxford.
- Thomas Hardy
- 1895
Enredo. O romance conta a história de Jude Fawley, que mora em uma vila no sul da Inglaterra (parte do condado fictício de Wessex, criado por Hardy), que deseja ser estudioso em "Christminster", uma cidade inspirada em Oxford.
Jude is puzzled by Sue because her ideas are different from his and she will not return the feeling he has for her. Shortly after he tells her he is married, she announces her marriage to Phillotson and asks Jude to give her away. He sees Arabella again, who is back from abroad, spends the night with her, and learns that she married in Australia.
In Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, set in Victorian England, Jude Fawley dreams of studying at the prestigious university in Christminster. He is inspired by the example of his former teacher, Richard Phillotson , who departs for Christminster himself at the beginning of the novel.
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