Hardy’s Tragic Scheme: The Play of Absence and Presence
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This paper seeks to read Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure in terms of his playing-up with the absence and presence or appearance and disappearance of characters in relation to the author’s schematising tragic vision. In this novel, a Christminster University undergraduate, a friend of Sue, and Jude’s parents are mentioned but they never physically appear; they are simply talked about and portrayed. As the story goes, these absent characters are present as this absence and presence revolves around the life of Jude‘s and Sue’s. The unnamed undergraduate described only by Sue is a good tool Sue can manipulates things with. As regards to Jude’s absent parents, he is told what life trajectory his parents have left behind and he gradually discovers that he is trapped in the same track; marriage breakdown. Jude’s son Sue is bringing up kills two of her children and himself. All these courses of action culminates in the idea of presence and absence which instigates Hardy’s schemes of tragedy as if it were a divine injunction.
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This paper seeks to read Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure in terms of his playing-up with the absence and presence or appearance and disappearance of characters in relation to the author’s schematising tragic vision. In this novel, a Christminster University undergraduate, a friend of Sue, and Jude’s parents are mentioned but they never physically appear; they are simply talked about and portrayed. As the story goes, these absent characters are present as this absence and presence revolves around the life of Jude‘s and Sue’s. The unnamed undergraduate described only by Sue is a good tool Sue can manipulates things with. As regards to Jude’s absent parents, he is told what life trajectory his parents have left behind and he gradually discovers that he is trapped in the same track; marriage breakdown. Jude’s son Sue is bringing up kills two of her children and himself. All these courses of action culminates in the idea of presence and absence which instigates Hardy’s schemes of tragedy as if it were a divine injunction.
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