[Hardy-l] Father Time

[Betty Cortus]

On Aug 6, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Jackie Wilkinson wrote:

>  Hardy’s sense of loss for the child he never had, which is perhaps  
> why he has no name – certainly Father Time is NOT his name, it is  
> only the name by which people identify him.
Jacky, wasn't he called Jude after his father, or did I imagine  
that?  True, nobody ever seems to address him by that name.

And Will Stevens wrote on August 5, 07:

Hardy quite often makes his characters, to some extent at least,  
personify abstract qualities. (Think of Gabriel Oak, whose very name  
is a give-away - or, indeed, Jude or Sue themselves.)

I feel this tends to detract from the complexity of Hardy's  
characters making them appear somewhat one-dimensional, not  
altogether unlike  those  17C 'Comedy of Humours'   characters who  
are distorted to fit into an extremely confined personality mold.
Betty



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