Model
Digital Document
Publisher
Florida Atlantic University
Description
This study was undertaken in order to provide the reader
of Jude the Obscure· with a better understanding of the
nature of the directing influences upon the main character
insofar as they control his actions and thus his destiny.
Jude Fawley's misperceptions of Christminster, Arabella
Donn, and Sue Bridehead are the direct result of his
idealistic nature and contribute to his tragic demise.
Jude's inability to cope with reality manifests itself in
a recurrent death-wish which is the direct result of the
failure of his idealistic misperceptions to endure for long
in the light of reality. Therefore, the true tragedy of Jude
is his inability to see that it is his own nature that has
brought him to his fate and not some outside, impersonal force.
of Jude the Obscure· with a better understanding of the
nature of the directing influences upon the main character
insofar as they control his actions and thus his destiny.
Jude Fawley's misperceptions of Christminster, Arabella
Donn, and Sue Bridehead are the direct result of his
idealistic nature and contribute to his tragic demise.
Jude's inability to cope with reality manifests itself in
a recurrent death-wish which is the direct result of the
failure of his idealistic misperceptions to endure for long
in the light of reality. Therefore, the true tragedy of Jude
is his inability to see that it is his own nature that has
brought him to his fate and not some outside, impersonal force.
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