By Thomas Hardy
Upon its first visual appeal in 1895, Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure surprised Victorian critics and readers with a frank depiction of sexuality and an unbridled indictment of the associations of marriage, schooling, and faith, reportedly inflicting one Anglican bishop to reserve the e-book publicly burned. The adventure so exhausted Hardy that he by no means wrote a piece of fiction again.
Rich in symbolism, Jude the Obscure is the tale of Jude Fawley and his fight to upward thrust from his station as a terrible Wessex stonemason to that of a pupil at Christminster. it's also the tale of Jude's ill-fated dating together with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the last word tragedy that motives Jude's undoing and Sue's transformation. Jude the Obscure explores man's crucial loneliness and is still considered one of Hardy's most generally learn novels.
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Clause 28 had prohibited the "promotion" (or toleration) of same-sex lives, and in the process had inadvertently helped mobilize and unite gay communities. While race and immigration had been high on the political agenda during the 1960s, by the 1980s, sexual issues had been added to it. One critical issue emerged not as a result of the Thatcher administration, although it would help fuel the moral agendas of the new right conservatives. The critical issue was AIDS—acquired immune deficiency syndrome and HIV—human immuno-deficiency virus.
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