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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
Hardy como siempre nos da un buen drama, criticando los convencionalismos sociales de esa época, como la “moral” y la religión llevaban las riendas de las personas y si te desviabas de ellos tu vida se convertía en un infierno.
Libro 1 de #tometopple
History of magic del #OWLsreadathon
Libro 1 de #tometopple
History of magic del #OWLsreadathon
Watching the film on telly tonight, I remembered how much I love the book. I think it's by far my favourite Hardy novel (not that there are too many). It's depressing and dramatic, but then so are all his novels. And Jude is so painfully human, it hurts.
This one was interesting. Rather different to what I would expect from a 19thC novel. I experienced it as a sort of brown Romeo and Juliet set in nineteenth century Wessex. Jude Fawley is an ordinary man with ambitions to go to university at the nearby Christminster (based on Oxford) but he falls into a hasty marriage with the coarse Arabella. The marriage does not work out and Jude falls in love with his cousin, Sue, an educated woman. Sue, in her turn, falls into a marriage based on hasty grounds, with a schoolmaster, Phillotson. This is about how Jude and Sue find each other, lose each other, find each other again, and all over marriage.
Marriage is the overarching theme of this novel: its social, theological, philosophical and practical implications and consequences. Jude and Sue are constantly bothered with the question of it and burdened with it. There is tragedy, and the class constraints on Jude means that he is never able to go to university after all.
Overall, I think what Hardy was doing was passing commentary on the conflict between social convention and, on the other side, animalistic nature and free-thinking. Both are important but sometimes the conflict can be tragic. Jude and Sue could not find a happy medium or live entirely by the laws of one or the other (conventional marriage or unmarried love). A similar thing is found in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, so it seems to be a Hardy theme.
Unsurprisingly, the novel was scandalous, and apparently Hardy stopped writing (novels) after it.
Marriage is the overarching theme of this novel: its social, theological, philosophical and practical implications and consequences. Jude and Sue are constantly bothered with the question of it and burdened with it. There is tragedy, and the class constraints on Jude means that he is never able to go to university after all.
Overall, I think what Hardy was doing was passing commentary on the conflict between social convention and, on the other side, animalistic nature and free-thinking. Both are important but sometimes the conflict can be tragic. Jude and Sue could not find a happy medium or live entirely by the laws of one or the other (conventional marriage or unmarried love). A similar thing is found in Tess of the D'Urbervilles, so it seems to be a Hardy theme.
Unsurprisingly, the novel was scandalous, and apparently Hardy stopped writing (novels) after it.
Five enormous stars for Michael Ian Black’s reading of and commentary on the book. On its own merit, though—three stars. I think. It’s hard to separate Black’s performance from the text itself.
Writing this 'review' as a reminder of how it made me feel.
This was probably one of the most miserable books I've ever read. It frustrated me to no end, I hated most of the characters, and the ones I didn't hate made me want to slap them in the face. I hated the dialect used in some dialogues which made it difficult to read and understand at times, when I was already struggling to keep my fucking sanity in check. I hated the anxiety-inducing Victorian setting, because you know there's gonna be a female character going batshit insane and you know that if someone catches a cold they're gonna die.
It's been miserable from the very start, but even still there's a certain scene close to the end of the book where it goes from 0 to 10000 really quick, and it's probably the only book that made me wish I read about it beforehand or that there was a trigger warning of a sort, because holy shit. I applaud the author for including the scene because it takes guts, but it's especially bizarre as things such as sex or pregnancy or never explicitly mentioned or talked about. We don't even learn about Jude's and Sue's children being born,
The only positive thing about the book is that it ends, I guess. I really hated this book, but clearly not because it's awful. I hate it because it's brilliant and great at depicting awful things. I 100 % understand Hardy just straight up quitting writing novels after finishing this. There's no going back from this.
This was probably one of the most miserable books I've ever read. It frustrated me to no end, I hated most of the characters, and the ones I didn't hate made me want to slap them in the face. I hated the dialect used in some dialogues which made it difficult to read and understand at times, when I was already struggling to keep my fucking sanity in check. I hated the anxiety-inducing Victorian setting, because you know there's gonna be a female character going batshit insane and you know that if someone catches a cold they're gonna die.
It's been miserable from the very start, but even still there's a certain scene close to the end of the book where it goes from 0 to 10000 really quick, and it's probably the only book that made me wish I read about it beforehand or that there was a trigger warning of a sort, because holy shit. I applaud the author for including the scene because it takes guts, but it's especially bizarre as things such as sex or pregnancy or never explicitly mentioned or talked about. We don't even learn about Jude's and Sue's children being born,
Spoiler
but we sure as hell learn about them being dead.The only positive thing about the book is that it ends, I guess. I really hated this book, but clearly not because it's awful. I hate it because it's brilliant and great at depicting awful things. I 100 % understand Hardy just straight up quitting writing novels after finishing this. There's no going back from this.
challenging
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
brooo ur so insufferable and ur trying to get with ur cousin please pick a battle