5/28/2023 0 Comments Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy![]() ![]() ![]() The masses, naturally, are presented as despicable, hostile to the diverse, incapable of accepting what does not replicate their mediocrity. Jude, the protagonist, faces a freedom-limiting environment, oppressive against any manifestation of the individual. Brilliant and inducer of the revolt: Jude the Obscure exposes the entrails of this repugnant organization called society. And it is not possible today, far from the petty conveniences of Victorian society, not to classify the work as brilliant. As for the criticism, Swift has well defined: “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him”. The fact is that Hardy abandoned the genre exactly after the publication of a masterpiece. Received in hostility by the critics, some say that the epithets from “dirty” to “immoral” justified Hardy living little more than thirty years without publishing a new novel. J ude the Obscure is Thomas Hardy’s latest novel. ![]()
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