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| author = Thomas Hardy
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A novel by English author Thomas Hardy published in 1895. This was his final novel.
'''''Jude the Obscure''''' is about a working-class man named Jude Fawley, a dreamer with aspirations to become a scholar in the town of Christminster (modeled after Oxford). He learns the craft of stone masonry and has a poorly-chosen marriage as a teenager, which finally ends in separation. He moves to Christminister to pursue his dream, but is is ultimately rejected and is disillusioned from becoming a scholar. Jude meets and has an ongoing affair with his cousin Sue Bridehead, even after her marriage. He and his family face a never-ending series of hardships, tragedies and disappointments.
Some of the themes in the novel are the limits of class structure in Britain, ill-fated love and marriage, and adultery.
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* [[The Baby Trap]]: How {{spoiler|Arabella}} convinces Jude to marry her.
* [[Bungled Suicide]]: As noted above, both Jude and Sue fail spectacularly at committing suicide. Their survival becomes bitterly ironic when {{spoiler|their young children}} subvert this trope.
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* [[From Bad to Worse]]: Essentially the whole book.
* [[Hysterical Woman]]: Sue. She gets worse as time goes on.
* [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]]: At first, {{spoiler|Phillotson}}is this trope. He helps
* [[Kissing Cousins]]: Jude and Sue are cousins, and furthermore their family has notoriously bad luck in marriages.
* [[Law of Inverse Fertility]]: it could be argued that Sue keeps having children with Jude as a means of punishing herself. But {{spoiler|sadly, when Little Father Time kills his siblings, Sue also miscarriages their unborn child.}}
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{{The Big Read}}
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