#thomashardy

[lforlimbo]

You did not come, And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb,— Yet less for loss of your dear presence there Than that I thus found lacking in your make That high compassion which can overbear Reluctance for pure lovingkindness’ sake Grieved I, when, as the hope-hour stroked its sum, You did not come. You love not me, And love alone can lend you loyalty; –I know and knew it. But, unto the store Of human deeds divine in all but name, Was it not worth a little hour or more To add yet this: Once you, a woman, came To soothe a time-torn man; even though it be You love not me?

[actongloves]

"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs." - Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

[bibliobethblog]

Hello everyone and hope your Monday has got off to a great start. I’m still doing half days at work because my body clearly hates me 😅 but here I am with my Monday book haul! (Some things don’t change! 🤣) You might already know that certain covers do entice me to buy them and Chouette was really screaming my name. It’s a dark modern fable about mothering an unusual child - an owl baby. It will grip you in its talons and never let go. Why do I feel as if this could be me?? 🤣🤣🤣 I’m taking part in the #greatthomashardyreadalong2022 and it’s been one of my favourite things this year. A Pair Of Blue Eyes is one of the Hardy books I haven’t read and tells the tale of Elfride, daughter of a Rector who faces an agonising choice between two men - the boyish architect Stephen Smith and the older literary man, Henry Knight as the two friends become rivals for her affections. Finally Wuhan, a real chunker of a book at 608 pages. Set in 1937, this epic historical fiction is set in China where Wuhan stood alone in a whirlwind of war and violence against the Japanese army. This forced unprecedented culture and political changes that shaped China’s future. I’d love to know your thoughts on any of these books or authors. Let’s have a chat in the comments. Have a great week everyone! 🤗😘 #bookstagram #scottishbookstagrammer #ohnoanotherbooktogetthrough #chouette #claireoshetsky #apairofblueeyes #thomashardy #wuhan #johnfletcher #historicalfictionbooks #classicnovelsnerd #quirkybook #readinganythingandeverything #obsessedwithbooks📚 #newbooksplease https://www.instagram.com/p/ChkjiucrvM9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[sowingseedsandshootinghoops]

Dreams Deferred: The Destructive Effects of Descrimation

Note on the text: I used Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure as published in 1989 by Bantam Books

What happens to a dream differed?/Does it dry up/like a raisin in the sun?/Or fester like a sore-/and then run?/Does it stink like rotten meat?/Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags/like a heavy load

Or does it explode? (Langston Hughes, Harlem)

It explodes. It definitely explodes and takes down every vestige of your life with it. Or at least that’s what happens to Jude Fawley, the simple stone mason at the heart of Thomas Hardy’s 1895 novel.

When we first meet Jude he is a smart, kind, and precocious kid who is determined to make a name for himself. Even more specifically he is a working class man who is interested in ancient Latin and Greek who dreams of becoming a scholar. To that end he wants to go to college and get a degree because it “is the necessary hallmark of a man who wants to do anything in teaching” (10).

Now it is immediately obvious that Jude is an extremely hardworking man who is more than willing to put in whatever time and effort he needs to in order to get things done. He knows that in order to even stand a chance of getting into a university and becoming a professor he has to be at least as educated, if not more so, as his upper class counterparts. To that end he finds some books on Ancient Greek and Latin and starts to teach himself, which he is eventually able to master. It is a Herculean task in a lot of ways but eventually he is not able to read and write in those languages, but is able to quote the Bible and all the great Latin and Greek authors in their original language.

Not only is Jude smart but he is also a very kind person who “cannot bear to hurt anything” (17). Time and time again he goes out of his way to help people, even those who, like Arabella, have been really cruel to him. Arabella who calls him a “tender hearted fool” when he is forced to slaughter his beloved pet pig, and later says that there has never been “such a tender fool as Jude [especially if] a woman seems to be in trouble and coaxes him a little” (68, 283). So it’s obvious that Jude is, in every respect, just as worthy as anyone else is of seeing his dreams be fulfilled: “I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea who knoweth not such things as these?” (Job 12:3 as quoted by Jude on page 126).

So when he realizes that his dreams of becoming a scholar and a teaching must be eternally deferred because he is too poor to go to school the result is incredibly harrowing and depressing, and thus begins his gradual descent into his own personal Hell:

This terribly sensible advice exasperated Jude. He knew it was true. Yet it seemed a hard slap after ten years of labor and its effect on him just now was to make him rise recklessly from the table and, instead of reading as usual, [decide to go out and get drunk] (124).

It’s while he’s at the bar, staring at his fellow patrons that he comes upon what in many ways is the central theme of the book:

He began to see that the town life was a book of humanity infinitely more palpitating, varied and compendious than the gown life. These struggling men and women before him were the [real] reality [of the city] of Christminster (125).

It’s at this moment that his life begins the downward trajectory that will result in him dying alone and unhappy. Jude is a shining example of the negative effects that discrimination can have on the marginalized. Because dreams that have been arbitrarily strangled and made to die for reasons outside of a person control do not die quietly. They explode.

[ionbookintros]

Jude The Obscure by Thomas Hardy

[greenjaydeep]

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain. ~ #thomashardy pc: @rudrascape (at Prince of Wales Museum Mumbai) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpgyAI8P9Es/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dingxiangcheng]

Today marks the 95th anniversary of the day of Thomas Hardy's death. Dear friends, do you love his fictions? I am reading his novel Jude the Obscure. #hardy #tess #thomashardy #literature #tessofthedurbervilles #judetheobscure #british #chinese #fiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CnR-YolLpYc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[vintagecinemaart]

Tess-Original Vintage Movie Poster for Roman Polanski's Lyrical Adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel with Peter Firth and Nastassja Kinski. #tess #barrylyndon #thomashardy #romanpolanski #vintagecinemaart #movieposter #wallart https://etsy.me/3jRz08C https://www.instagram.com/p/CnA-Uyfs-43/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[fromme20]

- and yet to every bad, there is a worse 🥀 #ThomasHardy #Poetry#Broken (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClhZ6s0DiY9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[monriatitans]

ADOPTION AWARENESS QUOTE 3 OF 3 Friday, November 4, 2022

"The beggarly question of parentage—what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom." - Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure

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You "prolifers" need to get to work adopting the kids who are already here. #roevember

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[book-quotes-world]

"The highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides." -Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Get this book - https://amzn.to/3N7E81z #affection #lovequotes #morningquotes #quoteoftheday #quotesfrombooks #bookstagram #bookquotes #thomashardy https://www.instagram.com/p/CdcYA2cJXRJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bwthornton]

Afterwards by Thomas Hardy #Poetry #Poems #ThomasHardy #Afterwards #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers

[egdonheath]

Far From the Madding Crowd is my favorite Hardy novel so far. I loved Gabriel Oak of course. His modest heroism reminded me fondly of Diggory Venn in The Return of the Native and Jeeves. The plot revolves around the beautiful and impulsive ingenue, Bathsheba Evedene and the very different kinds of men who are attracted to her. A great appeal of the novel for me was Hardy’s poetic descriptions of nature and pastoral life. The section of Gabriel Oak lambing alone on Norcombe hill under a star filled winter sky for example is stunning! Hardy’s eloquent reflections on the timeless functionality and beauty of shearing barn is another. His experience as an architect is evident here. There is tragedy, but it isn’t relentless. In fact there are a few attestations of love that are hilarious in their candor and awkwardness. Recommended. #ThomasHardy

I was struck by the creative names in this novel: Bathsheba Evedene, Gabriel Oak, Mr. Boldwood, Seargent Troy, Joseph Poorgrass, Benjy Pennyways, Matthew Moon, Cainy Ball, Maryann Money, Temperance and Soberness Miller.

Quotes:

Her love was in entire as a child’s, and though warm summer it was fresh a spring. Her culpability lay in her making no attempt to control feeling by subtle and careful inquiry into consequences. She could show others the steep and thorny way, but ‘rek’d not her own rede. And Troy’s deformities lay deep down from a woman’s vision, whilst his embellishments were upon the very surface; thus contrasting with homely Oak whose defects were patent to the blindest, and whose virtues were as metals in a mine.

[bibliobethblog]

Jude The Obscure - one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels yet it has eluded me until this year. Thanks to the #greatthomashardyreadathon2022 for getting me excited about Hardy again. Well - when I say excited, please don’t take it literally because this book is so melancholy, it might actually put a dampener on any high spirits you may have been feeling! ⁣ ⁣ This is the story of Jude who has always wanted to better himself through education and attending the local college. However, he ends up being thrust into marriage with the scheming Arabella who then abandons him when she finds better prospects. Jude then falls in love with his cousin, Sue. Hopefully he can find happiness? Don’t bet on it. Hardy seems to love torturing his characters and Jude is the next in line to wallow in his own misery. ⁣ ⁣ There are a lot of difficult subjects discussed in this novel that I don’t really want to go into for fear of spoilers but I’m sure you could find out elsewhere if you were concerned before deciding to read it. As I appreciate a dark and dreary narrative I found this book beautifully terrible. Is that even a phrase? It was heartbreaking, gut-wrenching, horribly sad, despairing and thoroughly depressing. ⁣ ⁣ However, Hardy’s stunning character portrayal, particularly of the doomed Jude, is nothing short of perfection. I revelled in every word, each glorious description and I still think about Jude and wonder if there was ever any hope for him. If you’re after a light, fluffy and cheery novel, this might not be for you but I’d like myself, you’re in the right mindset to immerse yourself in a bit of darkness, please give this a try!⁣ ⁣ Five glorious stars 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 🌟 ⁣ ⁣ #bookstagram #scottishbookstagrammer #bookreviewer #reviewingbooksonthegram #judetheobscure #thomashardy #thomashardyfans #rediscoveringclassics #fivestarreads2022 #favouriteauthor❤️ #darknovels #depressingnovel #readingandreviewing #readthisbooknow #unforgettablecharacters #memorablereads https://www.instagram.com/p/ClErv6UrmaO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[biboocat]

Far From the Madding Crowd is my favorite Hardy novel so far. I loved Gabriel Oak of course. His modest heroism reminded me fondly of Diggory Venn in The Return of the Native and Jeeves. The plot revolves around the beautiful and impulsive ingenue, Bathsheba Evedene and the very different kinds of men who are attracted to her. A great appeal of the novel for me was Hardy’s poetic descriptions of nature and pastoral life. The section of Gabriel Oak lambing alone on Norcombe hill under a star filled winter sky for example is stunning! Hardy’s eloquent reflections on the timeless functionality and beauty of shearing barn is another. His experience as an architect is evident here. There is tragedy, but it isn’t relentless. In fact there are a few attestations of love that are hilarious in their candor and awkwardness. Recommended. #ThomasHardy

[ladylipt]

Moments in the rain ☔

1 - Pride and Prejudice (2005)

2 - Northanger Abbey (2007)

3 - Sense and Sensibility (1995)

4 - Jane Eyre (2006)

5 - Becoming Jane (2007)

6 - Far from the Madding Crowd (2015)

Pictures found on: @pinterest

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