Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations.
Hardy\'s portrait of Jude, the idealist and dreamer who is a prisoner of his own physical.
But life as social outcasts proves undermining, and when tragedy occurs, Sue has no resilience and Jude is left in despair.
Frustrated by poverty and the indifference of the academic institutions at the University of Christminster, his only chance of fulfilment seems to lie in his relationship with his unconventional cousin, Sue Bridehead.
Jude Fawley is a rural stone mason with intellectual aspirations