[Hardy-l] Father Time

[carolyn mcgrath]

Hi Jacky
   
    Father Time's Suicide Note in Jude the Obscure 
Walter K. Gordon
Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Dec., 1967), pp. 298-300
This article consists of 3 page(s). 
   
    "Jude the Obscure": Hardy's Symbolic Indictment of Christianity 
Norman Holland, Jr.
Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Jun., 1954), pp. 50-60
This article consists of 11 page(s). 

   

  I keep finding these JSTOR articles that I can't access but am intrigued by their claims; the first asserts, "More subtly, however, Father Time is surely a thinly veiled persona for Thomas Hardy himself. He is gloom personified - an odd combination of child and man, youth and old age - a boy who seems obsessed too early with decay, death and human misery." Might be amusing though can't see that one being particularly convincing.
   
  More plausible, and more in tune with your thinking maybe, seems to be the second which argues, "Hardy uses symbols and imagery derived from the evolution of Christianity to criticise the so-called Christian society he knew ... and to criticise the Christian ideal of self-sacrifice."
   
  I don't know if it will prove useful but might be an interesting read.
   
  best wishes
   
  Carolyn McGrath


Carolyn McGrath
       
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