Compromising Female Characters in Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d"Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure The novels of Thomas Hardy are intricate and complicated works whose plots seem to be completely planned before the first word is ever actually formed on paper. Though I have no proof of Hardy's method of writing, it is clear that he focuses more on plot development than characterization in the novels Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the d"Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. ... But the main reason Hardy uses this method, especially in the tragedies Tess and Jude, is to present...

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It may be said that Jude, Karl and Smith were more sinned against than sinned. ... Jude, of Jude the Obscure is another protagonist which faces the pressures of oppression, only on an entirely different plane. ... Because of this circumstance, Jude's marriage with Arabella was compelled, as it was seen as shameful to have a child out of wedlock: There seemed to him, vaguely and dimly, something wrong in a social ritual which made necessary a canceling of well-formed schemes involving years of thought and labour contributing his units of work to the general progress of his generation...

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He trained as an Architect and pursued this to 1874 when he wrote his novel Far From The Madding Crowd which was successful and allowed hardy to devote himself to writing he continued writing novels till 1895 when he gave up fiction as he latest novel Jude The Obscure was condemned in reviews as an immoral attack on the institution of marriage. ... The names and settings all based on Dorchester or the countryside where Hardy grew up. ...

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An ode the woman herself, Queen Victoria, and the subsequent characteristics of the Victorian period In an unpredictable, tumultuous era, the stern, staid figure of Queen Victoria came to represent stability and continuity. The adjective "Victorian" was first used in 1851 to celebrate the nation's mounting pride in its institutions and commercial success. That year, the global predominance of British industry had emerged incontestably at the original "world's fair" in London, the "Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations," which Prince Albert helped organize. Arra...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887 was felt by many to represent the end of an era. An end-of-century stoicism, and a growing pessimism among writers and intellectuals, may be traced to several sources, not least the publica...

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