Romanticism in Jude the Obscur
In the novel Jude the Obscure, Hardy shows the reader that the Romantic characteristics and ideals of the characters (Jude and Sue) are detrimental to them in their anti-Romantic world. Their romantic ideals are so inherent in their personality, and so antithetical to their society, that they are better off dead than living in their world. In his novel, Hardy shows the opposition between Romanticism, associated with tradition and a “golden age,” and Darwinism, representative of modernization and progress. (Davis) Hardy’s characters repeatedly feel the “ache of modernism.” (Rogers) Jude’s character is Romantic rather than Darwinian, which is why he cannot survive in this age. He is sensitive to nature, which is not acceptable in Darwinian society. “…he was a boy who could not himself bear to hurt anything. He could scarcely bare to see trees cut down or lopped, from a fancy that it hurt them; and late pruning, when the sap was up, and the tree bled profusely, had been a positive grief to him in his infancy.” (Hardy 17) As a boy, Jude is very aware of life’s inequities. (Hassett 432) From the very beginning of the novel, Hardy shows us not only that Jude has a strong imagination,
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Approximate Word count = 2367
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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