There is this advantage in being poor obscure people like us-that these things are done for us in a rough and ready fashion. “One thing is certain, that however the decree may be brought about, a marriage is dissolved when it is dissolved. Both cases had been too insignificant to be reported in the papers, further than by name in a long list of other undefended cases. The same concluding incident in Jude’s suit against Arabella had occurred about a month or two earlier. It's a throwaway usage of the word, not hugely significant, but it emphasises the point that poor people such as they are considered "obscure" by society, not worth paying much attention to: There's even one passage in the story where the word "obscure" is used by Jude himself, in reference to his and Sue's divorces. In the end he dies unknown, unheard of, without qualifications, none of his dreams achieved - in a word, in obscurity. This makes more sense in terms of the character of Jude: he spends so much time trying to enter into one of the colleges of Oxford Christminster, to achieve an education, to study theology, even to become an academic clergyman, but in the end he remains a stonemason and labourer, his obscurity in the world upper-class academia guaranteeing his rejection from every college he approaches. Official policy has changed, for reasons that remain obscure. Not clear and difficult to understand or see: Indeed, the Cambridge English Dictionary lists two meanings: You seem to be assuming that "obscure" means something like "strange" or "difficult to understand", but the more common (in my experience) meaning of the word is something more like "unknown" or "not famous". Open Access This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license ( ).TL DR: you're getting the wrong meaning of "obscure". Antisocial tendencies alienation and anxiety for the fate of mankind reflected in modern literature, is characterized by a series of tragic tone of these novels.
These tragic novels have a strong sense of crisis which is quite like modernism literature. For example, his early novels depict life as full of poetic, but his late novels, mainly his tragic novel "Return of the Native," "The Mayor of Caster Bridge," "Tess" and "Jude the Obscure", have been shrouded in an atmosphere of pessimism. On one hand, he inherited the great tradition of realism literary, profoundly expose many malpractices of Victoria dynasty on the other hand, he also created a precedent for the British modernism, and painfully analyze the kind of dilemma plight in modern capitalist society. Thomas Hardy is not only an excellent successor of the British realism literary, but also a pioneer of modern literature.
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