Shortly after he tells her he is married, she announces her marriage to Phillotson and asks Jude to give her away. Jude is puzzled by Sue because her ideas are different from his and she will not return the feeling he has for her. Sue is there at a training college and is to marry Phillotson when she finishes, but she flees the school when punished for staying out all night with Jude. This plus the fact that he has made no headway on getting into the university and realizes he never will causes him to give up that part of his dream and leave Christminster.Īt Melchester he intends to pursue theological study and eventually enter the church at a lower level. Sue will not return his love, and when he realizes that Phillotson, under whom she is now teaching, is interested in Sue, Jude is in despair. He meets and falls in love with her, though the fact of his being married causes him to feel guilty. Though delayed, Jude does get to Christminster, partly because of his aspirations but also partly because of the presence there of his cousin Sue Bridehead. They do not get along at all, and eventually Arabella leaves him to go with her family to Australia. He meets, desires, and marries Arabella Donn, who deceives him into marriage by making him think he has got her pregnant. He studies very hard on his own to prepare for the move, and to provide a means by which he can support himself at the university, he learns the trade of ecclesiastical stonework. Jude is being raised by his great-aunt, whom he helps in her bakery. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree and to be ordained. Jude Fawley, an eleven-year-old boy, wants to follow the example of his teacher Mr. Hardy's Writing Style and Use of Quotations.Symbolism and Irony in Jude the Obscure.

Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy