• Dr.Christy Paulina.J

Jude the Obscure is yet another milestone in defining the ways of an individual. It is the grimmest of Thomas Hardy’s tragedies. It deals with the modern themes of failure, frustration, disharmony and isolation as inescapable conditions of life. In the works of Richard Carpenter “The last novel Hardy wrote is also is most modern , turning away as it does from agricultural setting and pastoral with to a restless world of cities and psychological insecurities” (138). It is a tragedy of ‘unfulfilled aims’. It is Jude’s search “the presence of signified, a fixed meaning in life” (Garson 153). Jude is also a victim to his impulses. Hardy has aggressively discussed the issues of love, marriage and sex in an outraging manner. Feeling that he is in an age that needed some repair and reform on the socialistic conventional views of the society Hardy has written this novel highlighting the modern world’s psychological insecurities and the harsh city life.

"Jude the Obscure- Unfulfilled Aims in the view of an Existentialist", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.962-965, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907C93.pdf

"Jude the Obscure- Unfulfilled Aims in the view of an Existentialist", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp962-965, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907C93.pdf