This is the activity of my class. In this task our professor gave us a task about the experience of a classmate after watching some scenes of Jude the obscure. So I start sharing my experience here,In this blog.
Thomas Hardy was born June 2, 1840, in Higher Bockhampton in Dorset, a rural region of southwestern England that was to become the focus of his fiction. The child of a builder, Hardy was apprenticed at the age of sixteen to John Hicks, an architect who lived in the city of Dorchester. The location would later serve as the model for Hardy’s fictional Casterbridge. Although he gave serious thought to attending university and entering the church, a struggle he would dramatize in his novel Jude the Obscure, declining religious faith and lack of money led Hardy to pursue a career in writing instead. He spent nearly a dozen years toiling in obscurity and producing unsuccessful novels and poetry. Far from the Madding Crowd, published in 1874, was the author’s first critical and financial success. Finally able to support himself as a writer, Hardy married Emma Lavinia Gifford later that year.
About the novel:
Jude the Obscure is the last novel written by Hardy. It marks his attainment of the heights of his art, and reveals the deepest recesses of his pessimism which, unlike in his other novels, remains unrelieved by even the slightest hope or joy. It was Hardy's frank treatment of sex in this novel that aroused a storm of protest among his readers who had inhibitions caused by the Victorian notion of prudery and sexual morality
This storm swept Hardy off his feet in the field of novel-writing, and he turned him towards that of poetry. Unlike other major novels, which are set against a rural life.
When we study this text , we have seen some scenes for better understanding. First scene is of childhood ofjude&his curiosity to get education in Oxford University. Here is an image of the scene
Second scene is about Jude question to his teacher philtoson. After this scene Phillotson goes out of town for his job.
Then there is the scene of pig butchering, scene of rabbits, so there are many scenes which can help the readers as well as the audience to understand the concept of text.
The last scene of the text is little father attempt suiside&also he killed other two children of sue&Jude. This scene suggests the maturity of a little father. After this scene sue&Jude feel guilty.
In the text it is also seen that the character of sue bridehead was more modern rather than the woman of society of that time, so to understand the character of sue the concept of pink movie was given to us.there are several scenes of pink movie, which is shown in the class.
The scenes of the pink movie are related to the character of Sue Bridehead, as well as the beliefs of today's society. By the character of the Sue bridehead readers can consider that Hardy is the bitterest critic towards society of that time.
My own experience:My own experience after watching this movie is there is readers as well as society of that time criticise alot the character of sue bridehead as well as Thomas Hardy also.but according to my prospective the female character like Sue get criticise in this 21st century also.if you are female with some type of "DAAG" the society doesn't accept you they will not allow you to stay in the society.some readers says that this is feminist point of view, but this is no truth at all, this is bitterest truth of our modern society.
In our society the female character is always judged by her character. When the boys make mistakes the people of the society forgive him easily, By saying he is a boy. Boy should not be punished by the society,as well he doesn't face the judgement of society also.There is a contemporary character of ANUPAMA this character is also supported by our character sue bridehead. In this serial it is shown that the female character ANUPAMA got not much pride because of her character, which we can say Character with "DAAG" so my meaning is that we canb not accept women with the DAAG in contemporary society also.
This is my point of view regarding the situation of today's society. So the reader can consider that Hardy is bitterest critic of today's society
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