Jude is Great but gosh is so romantic!!! Hardy steps a typical character we met on Rennaiscense manner. It is the pure, the perfect Heroe for the Round Table of Arthur's but this kind of persons has not a prototype in reality. I liked the way she turned him down from church to humanity and so on... this is a book you hardly can find in Hardy's library...
For all his naivity, Jude is quite a romantic hero. Like Tess, he is a noble savage, shackled by a poor rural upbringing but capable of so much if he would overcome his weakness for the flesh. Jude does not reach the level of the gods, as Tess and Eustacia do, but he lives on a higher spiritual plain, as we can see from his recital of the Latin oration in a pub full of Christminster undergraduates. It feels almost profane to hear the oration spoken in a pub full of drunks; education is no longer something noble but a commodity, reserved for the stupid and rich.
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