Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure exposes the entrails of this repugnant organization called society
Jude the Obscure is Thomas Hardy’s latest novel. Received in hostility by the critics, some say that the epithets from “dirty” to “immoral” justified Hardy living little more than thirty years without publishing a new novel.
The fact is that Hardy abandoned the genre exactly after the publication of a masterpiece.
As for the criticism, Swift has well defined: “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him”.
And it is not possible today, far from the petty conveniences of Victorian society, not to classify the work as brilliant. Brilliant and inducer of the revolt: Jude the Obscure exposes the entrails of this repugnant organization called society.
Jude, the protagonist, faces a freedom-limiting environment, oppressive against any manifestation of the individual.
The masses, naturally, are presented as despicable, hostile to the diverse, incapable of accepting what does not replicate their mediocrity.
Social organization based on conventions, almost always stupid, unnatural, and inductive of injustice; authoritarianism…
