Sue Bridehead:The Girl of the Period in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure

摘要

Jude the Obscure was Thomas Hardy’s last novel creation,and he spent eight year from preparation to publication.Although this novel received a lot of criticisms instead of praises when it came out,it also can be considered as Thomas Hardy’s classical works.The theme of this novel is so brave to explore the existing women’s living circumstances in that time.With the industrial revolution in England,new thoughts and ideas sprang out.Women were no longer belonging to husband and family,and they began to be aware of their social roles and reconsider their identity in society and marriage.The aim of the paper is to analyze this novel from the feministic perspective and re-read the character of Sue Bridehead in the light of the theory"the girl of the period".