1. Prepared by,
Vala Neeta T.,
M.A. Sem. IV,
Roll no. 20
Paper no. EE - 405
Dept. of English,
Bhavnagar.

2.  Thomas Hardy – Pessimist
 The painter of dark side of life
 The gloomy effect of his age – his writings
 “Jude the Obscure” – A Pessimist Novel
 Jude
• A sense of loneliness
• A sense of frustration
• Marital bliss destroyed
• Tragic death

3.  Sue:
• love Jude and marry with Phillotson
• living with Jude without marriage
• the death of three children
• returns to her husband
Conclusion –
‘Jude the Obscure’ is a pessimistic novel. Hardy has presented
dark side of life and the novel is a terribly dark work of art, perhaps
even darker than the other tragic novels of Hardy.