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WINCENT'S WEB SITE--HARDY
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Address: http://203.15.24.1/~ghurrell/docs/jude.html [NOW CLOSED]
Contact: Greg Hurrell (wincent@ghurrell.mtx.net)
Date: 01/01/02
This page is part of a site maintained by "Wincent," a pseudonym of Greg Hurrell, an undergraduate student at Flinders University, South Australia. It contains an untitled nine-paragraph essay by Greg Hurrell, written in October, 1997, on Hardy's Jude the Obscure, with four references to the Oxford UP (1985) edition of the text of Jude and one to the Norton Anthology of English Literature (1993). The thesis of the paper is that "Jude the Obscure is indeed a lesson in cruelty and despair; the inevitable by-products of Social Darwinism. The main characters of the book are controlled by fate's 'compelling arm of extraordinary muscular power', weakly resisting the influence of their own sexuality, and of society and nature around them."
COMMENT:
An brief and unoriginal paper not likely to be of any use for scholarly purposes.