His tragic characters lives' earned the labels "immoral" and "obscene". a marriage should be dissolvable as soon as it becomes a cruelty to either of the parties-being then essentially and morally no marriage." they shocked Hardy's Victorian readers' sensibilities. Tess and Jude received many criticisms upon publication, for in examinations of the fallen woman, sin, the class system, and the vagaries of religion and marriage,- ". 4Īnd Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) Moreover she, and Clare also, stood as yet on the debatable land between predilection and love where no profundities have been reached no reflections have set in, awkwardly inquiring, "Whither does this new current tend to carry me? What does it mean to my future? How does it stand towards my past?"-Ch. But nobody did come, because nobody does and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.-Ch.
Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian.
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