Posted by Lale on 10/2/2009, 12:21:42, in reply to "Re: jude the obscure"
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This is my review of Jude The Obscure.
Lale
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Phillotson the schoolmaster moves to Christminster.
Jude moves to Alfredston to earn money.
Jude meets Arabella, they get married and move to Alfredston.
Arabella moves out, she moves in with her parents and they later move to Australia.
Jude moves to Christminster.
Sue had already moved to London and then back to Christminster.
Phillotson had moved to Lumsdon.
Sue moves to Lumsdon.
Jude moves to Marygreen.
Sue moves to Melchester.
Jude moves to Melchester.
Arabella moves back to England and moves about: London, Christminster etc.
Sue moves, temporarily, to a town near Shaston.
Phillotson moves to Shaston.
Sue marries Phillotson and she moves to Shaston.
Jude thinks of moving to Christminster but stays in Melchester.
Arabella moves to Lambeth.
Sue and Jude move to Aldbrickham.
Sue and Jude move about for two and a half years.
They finally move to Kennetbridge.
Phillotson moves to Marygreen.
Sue, Jude and their children move to Christminster.
Sue moves out.
Arabella's father moves from Australia to Alfredston.
Arabella moves in with him.
Sue moves to Marygreen and remarries Phillotson.
Arabella coaxes Jude to remarry him. They move out of her father's house.
Jude dies.
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: Here it is.
:
: Lale
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: Posted by Steven on 19/1/2007, 13:12:13
:
: Hardy gave fictional names to real places in his
: novels. There are several maps available online
: showing the locations in his novels, but I haven't
: found any as comprehensive as the one in the Oxford
: World's Classics editions. I've scanned one of them
: and highlighted the locations featured in Jude the
: Obscure.
: {http://www.readliterature.com/stamps/images/Jude%20Locations.gif
: --- see below - LE}
:
: Here are the corresponding real names:
:
: Christminster is Oxford
: Alfredston is Wantage
: Marygreen is Eawley Magna
: Kennetbridge is Newbury
: Aldbrickham is Reading
: Melchester is Salisbury
: Shaston is Shaftsbury
:
: ~~~
:
: Posted by Rizwan on 19/1/2007, 13:36:06, in reply to
: "Map for Jude the Obscure"
:
: Thanks Steven. This is definitely helpful for me.
:
: Not sure how others feel about this, but I actually
: wish Hardy had just used the real names for places,
: especially since they are so thinly disguised in the
: first place. I'm not sure that these fictional names
: really add anything to the story--or maybe there's
: some larger point I'm missing? I mean, I see
: Faulkner's point in renaming things in his
: psuedo-fictional Yoknapatawpha County, and
: Garcia-Marquez did the same thing in his
: psuedo-fictional Macando (both, I think, did this in
: part to place emphasis on the universal themes in
: their work), but I'm not sure Hardy had this same goal
: in mind. Again, I could be wrong...
:
: ~~~
:
: Posted by Steven on 19/1/2007, 22:39:14, in reply to
: "Re: Map for Jude the Obscure"
:
: --Previous Message--
: Not sure how others feel about this, but I actually
: wish Hardy had just used the real names for places,
: especially since they are so thinly disguised in the
: first place. I'm not sure that these fictional names
: really add anything to the story--or maybe there's
: some larger point I'm missing?
:
: Yes, I agree that real names would have been just as
: effective. Anonymity in various forms seems to have
: been fashionable in 19th century novels, and maybe
: that's the chief explanation. Many authors used
: pseudonyms. Dostoevsky begins C&P with a reference to
: "K--- bridge." Poe even has anonymous
: fictional characters such as "G---".
:
: ~~~
:
: Posted by LadyPurple on 20/1/2007, 7:03:33, in reply
: to "Re: Map for Jude the Obscure"
:
: I am not sure whether real place names would have been
: an option for Hardy at the time. With hindsight we
: might see it this way.
:
: I found the following speech by him that sheds some
: light on his use of fictional names:
:
: In 1910 Hardy was awarded the freedom of the Borough
: of Dorchester. In the speech he delivered on that
: occasion he explained:
:
: I may be allowed to confess that the freedom of the
: Borough of Dorchester did seem to me at first
: something I had possessed a long while, ... for when I
: consider the liberties I have taken with its ancient
: walls, streets, and precincts through the medium of
: the printing-press, I feel that I have treated its
: external features with the hand of freedom indeed.
: True, it might be urged that my Casterbridge (if I may
: mention seriously a name coined off-hand in a moment
: with no thought of its becoming established and
: localized) is not Dorchester--not even the Dorchester
: that existed 60 years ago, but a dream-place that
: never was outside an irresponsible book. Nevertheless,
: when somebody said to me that 'Casterbridge' is a sort
: of essence of the town as it used to be, 'a place more
: Dorchester than Dorchester itself', I could not
: absolutely contradict him, though I could not quite
: perceive it. At any rate, it is not a photograph in
: words, that inartistic species of literary produce,
: particularly in respect to personages. ... The
: chronicle of the town has vivid marks on it. Not to go
: back to events of National importance, lurid scenes
: have been enacted here within living memory, or not so
: many years beyond it ... . Then, if one were to
: recount the election excitements, Free Trade riots,
: scenes of soldiers marching down the town to war, the
: proclamation of Sovereigns now crumbled to dust, it
: would be an interesting local story. (1)
:
: Endnotes:
:
: (1) Hardy, Thomas. The Life and Work of Thomas Hardy.
: Edited by Michael Millgate. Basingstoke: Macmillan,
: 1984. 379.
:
: There are other interesting bits of information on the
: site, in particular relating to the maps.
:
:
: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~bp10/wessex/fictional_concept/freedom.shtml
:
: Friederike
:
: ~~~
:
: Posted by LadyPurple on 20/1/2007, 7:05:38, in reply
: to "Re: Map for Jude the Obscure"
:
: Actually, I was just reading the introductory article
: on the site mentioned in my previous message.
:
: Interesting reading about the evolution of
: "Wessex"
:
: Friederike
:
: ~~~
:
: Posted by Rizwan on 22/1/2007, 10:19:24, in reply to
: "Re: Map for Jude the Obscure"
:
: Awesome info. Of course a Read Lit contributor would
: provide the answer. Thanks Friederike!
:
:
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