A study of conflicts found in Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" - Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya Repository

CHAPTER V
( '(\N'coml quep,tion on the stalf·lllt"!Jis of the

problt>m IIt· nee'. concf"ming lht> iirst qut>stion on the statements ofthc proble-m that

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conHid i~

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in "Judt> "I11e Obscure'' caw:,•d by . il is
protagni~:

co11dulkd tim! .luck' 1-: IIIIH'r conflict is cmts••d by womrn ami by hi' ambition 1\s
ln1rrwn !king;; no OJh~

e coni1icts. like~

Jmk Jude ha;; many problems which he

him~df
deci~JOl.

lk

~hould

~houid

the• main character

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this BIOI)'.

solve, t>;>pecialiy the problerrw \Vi!h

think about it over and over

~;o

thai he can JH:ike the be~:i

To makt• !Itt· beRt decision is not c'aF•i to do since he is lorn llt'hveen his

princ1plt> of lit;, and lns mor;,l kut :Jt the Pnd. Jude can decidt> w1thou! doubt and
regret what l:ind of lik he has and h0 is happy that h0

cmd Ii ct is the proagni~l

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T!w. Ob~ma~
Hnrdy's"
SurymJti. Inge (Go Fit- Eng) 1988. i\__~iuly_
Jude 'I1k Obscure'' Unpublished 11w;;is. Surabaya : tJniv::rsita;; Kristen
Petra.
\Vebskr. 1986. Wt'\J~c-rs
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