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Jude the Obscure, the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, began as a magazine serial and was first published in book form in 1895. Its hero, Jude Fawley, is a working-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The other main character is his cousin, Sue Bridehead, who is also his central love interest. The themes in the novel revolve around issues of class, education, religion, and marriage.
The book was burned publicly by William Walsham How, Bishop of Wakefield, in that same year.
The novel tells the story of Jude Fawley, a village stonemason in the southern English region of Wessex who yearns to be a scholar at "Christminster", a city modeled on Oxford. In his spare time while working in his aunt's bakery, he teaches himself Greek and Latin. Before he can try to enter the university, the naïve Jude is manipulated, through a process he later calls erotolepsy, into marrying a rather coarse and superficial local girl, Arabella Donn, who deserts him within two years. By this time, he has abandoned the classics altogether.
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Tt wasn’t long before she fell through the gaps of it
all, why, you lie and try until you believe yourself,
why, you will never come close to raise your fist to make
a toast, the shade of lipstick on your glass is pretty,
the scent of wine has stained you,
I want my blood in your hair as I weaken, I beg for more,
break a nail, and wither to nothing,
Never again will your breath feel so warm, will your
heart beat so loud, your hope wont last, you can't see
the pain you’ve caused, I know what it feels like, its
been so long, my veins are draining, oh man why do I love
this, dig your fingernails in me so I can bleed forever,
take hold of something you never had and hurt me just a
little bit I want more so I can bleed,
I want you to paint me, paint me with your blood and hang
your head in shame, I beg for more.
Runaway, runaway, twelve years of terror, some feelings
are better left unknown, is this a sensation we enjoy, I
want more so I can bleed forever, it matches the shade of
your lipstick, it’s pretty.