Christminster, scholars agree and it seems valid, was a city that Hardy modelled on Oxford.
He wants to further his intellect and thus, wants admission into the university at Christminster. Jude is a dreaming personality who wants to become a learned man, a scholar. The novel follows the life of a young man Jude Fawley. The parts are based on the names of the places. Running up to 416 pages, the book has 6 different parts. The edition I read was a 1995 edition published by Wordsworth Editions. Jude the Obscure was first published in 1895. Let’s have a detailed look at the title of Thomas Hardy and we will learn more about available perspectives that we can use to construe this novel. Jude has the same fate as most of the heroes of Hardy but his agony doesn’t find the equaliser that we see with Oak and Dick. Moreover, Jude the Obscure also got lost in the same web of pessimism and loneliness. Still, his attempt could not bring much of the difference that could distinguish his approach. Thomas Hardy’s last completed novel, Jude the Obscure, was also perhaps his very first attempt at writing something beyond his usual periphery of pessimistic, silent and prolonged love-goals.
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