Jude the Obscure — A Level Student Guide

Master Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure with this comprehensive Coleman’s Notes® A Level Student Guide.

This detailed 58-page guide provides advanced analysis of Hardy’s powerful and controversial final novel, together with extensive examination and revision support. Jude the Obscure is also listed for genre study in Eduqas A Level English Language and Literature.

Follow Jude Fawley from his childhood in Marygreen and his dream of studying in Christminster through his relationships with Arabella Donn and Sue Bridehead, his struggle for education and social acceptance, and the increasingly tragic consequences of frustrated aspiration.

The guide explores Hardy’s treatment of education, class, marriage, religion, sexuality, gender, social respectability, parenthood, fate and individual freedom, while examining the literary methods through which Hardy constructs Jude’s tragedy.

Inside the guide:

• Complete plot summary
• Detailed analysis of all six parts
• In-depth study of Jude Fawley
• Sue Bridehead, Arabella Donn and Richard Phillotson
• Little Father Time and supporting characters
• Character relationships and development
• Education, aspiration and exclusion
• Marriage, law and individual freedom
• Religion, doubt and guilt
• Class, work and social mobility
• Gender, sexuality and respectability
• Children, parenthood and the future
• Fate, chance and tragic pattern
• Hardy’s language, structure and narrative form
• Symbols and motifs
• Christminster, Wessex and Victorian society
• A Level examination and independent-study guidance
• Five structured essay plans
• Five model answers
• 25 Exam & Revision Questions
• Fifteen Key Episodes
• Ten Critical Debates
• Close-reading dossiers
• AO workshops
• 30 Quick-Recall Questions with answers
• Final revision checklist

Ideal for A Level students, independent revision, classroom support, home education and tutoring.

Format: Digital PDF
Length: 58 pages
Series: Coleman’s Notes® Student Guide Series
Reference: CN-SG044
Individual Student Guide: £7.95

Also available as part of the Thomas Hardy Collection, containing five premium Student Guides:

Tess of the d’Urbervilles • Far from the Madding Crowd • The Mayor of Casterbridge • Jude the Obscure • The Return of the Native