![]() ![]() Jude struggles alone over the Greek and Latin grammars and texts, without the teaching that would facilitate the task. ![]() Phillotson, will have a pivotal role in Jude’s life: his decision to leave the village and move to Christminster in the hope of getting a university education inspires Jude with the same hope. In the opening sentence, Hardy marks the difficulty of 11-year-old Jude’s task: “The schoolmaster was leaving the village and everybody seemed sorry.” From the beginning, the reader empathizes with Jude’s longing for a classical education. ![]() Lawrence, surely one of the most banned writers of the 20th century, who considered Hardy the greatest – possibly the only great – 19th-century English writer, and whose cadences echo Hardy’s, especially in Women in Love.Īnd Jude is one of Hardy’s most sympathetic heroes. Like his characters Jude Fawley and Sue Bridehead, who are driven out of an elite university town because they are unmarried lovers living together, Hardy, a married man who wrote about flouting marital conventions, had no refuge – except in poetry. ![]()
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