FREE ESSAY ON JUDE THE OBSCURE

JUDE THE OBSCURE

Final Exam - Jude The Obscure
In life the role of a man has changed little in comparison to how much the role of a
women has changed. In Jude the Obscure the you explorer a wide variaty of applied feminen
identities. With exagerated properties of the applicaitons, it shows the true rang of
diversity in the role of women.
Arabella was a radical character in the noval, and many of her actions were considered
extreme for her time. She left Jude while in wedlock and was illegally married to another
man before she was properly divorced from Jude. She took on the role of the rebel, or one
against social laws. Arabella was a symbol of sin, and shown to be as the unfit woman.
The woman type of woman to be looked down on. The writer shows he negativity toward her
by the way she is always shown unhappy. She was unhappy with jude so she left him. She
found another man but there marriage was never legal or real, and as the book progressed
she found that she really wanted to be with Jude, who no longer wanted her for what she
did to him. Thomas Hardy, the author, was trying to show that her rebel ideals were wrong
and for her sins she was punished with enduring unhappiness. 
Sue on the other hand was on the other end of the spectrum. Sue was very odd, and she
even consider herself abnormal and evil, yet represented a woman of virtue and honor. She
was a very inteligent woman, and very noble. She represented a woman of class and
stature. She was very much desired by other men more for her complexity then anything
else. She was a mistery to men and it generated a fierce interest in them. The most
interesting fact being she would not let her virginty go. Men were left puzzled and
confused. She did however have her negative aspects to her character. She married a man,
and then asked to him to live with another. Something like that isn't respected. She used
the man she married for selfish reasons, which further explains the another point Hardy
was trying to make through Sue. He was making the point, women have a power over men, the
power of seduction, and is often miss used for selfish reasons. 
No one can stero type a woman because of the extreme contrast in behavior, and Hardy
displayed this fact clearly in this noval. Hardy took to woman, and showed you two
aspects of women's nature that clearly prove the diversity of woman themselves.