![]() ![]() Jude loves Sue passionately but Sue’s own feelings are less clear. ![]() Sue soon gets engaged to Phillotson, but her relationship with Jude also grows stronger and the two cousins become very close. He gets Sue a job with Phillotson, who has also failed to be accepted at a university and is a schoolteacher again. He immediately falls in love with her, though he tries to resist his feelings. While in Christminster Jude meets his intelligent, religiously agnostic cousin Sue Bridehead. At first he is enthralled by the place but he soon finds he cannot enter the university without wealth and social stature. ![]() Arabella moves to Australia and Jude finally makes his way to Christminster. Arabella pretends she is pregnant and tricks the honorable Jude into marrying her, but the marriage soon falls apart. Jude starts teaching himself classical languages and learning stonemasonry work, but he is distracted from his studies by Arabella Donn, a vain, sensual young woman. He is inspired in this dream by his old teacher, Richard Phillotson, who left with similar ambitions when Jude was a child. Jude Fawley is a poor orphan raised by his great-aunt, but he dreams of studying at the university in Christminster, a nearby town. Jude the Obscure takes place in Wessex, England in the Victorian era. ![]()
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