![]() ![]() With Sue, when the relationship is going well they work together in harmony, producing a model of a Christminster college together. Jude and Arabella’s estrangement comes to a head with their differing approaches to the slaughtering of a pig. In a similar manner, work also features in the ending of relationships within Jude. He meets Arabella when she is at work cleaning a pig’s offal and Sue when she is lettering a manuscript in a Christian shop. The narrative is driven by Jude Fawley’s ambition to be accepted to study at Christminster University and almost all the key encounters between the principal characters involves one or other of them being engaged in work. Work is one of the major themes of Jude the Obscure. Terry Eagleton, The English Novel: An Introduction And in few English novelists is work as central as in Hardy. Work is what transforms the raw stuff of nature into meaning, gathering it into a human project. ![]()
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