Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1971

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Stewart, Gwendolyn O.

Abstract

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.

Extent

78 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1971.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13470

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