![]() ![]() ![]() Here, the narrator pauses the plot to comment on Jude and Arabella's choices - and by extension, the institution of marriage more broadly. What was as remarkable as the undertaking itself was the fact that nobody seemed at all surprised at what they swore.” Narrator, Pages 61-62 “And so, standing before the aforesaid officiator, the two swore that at every other time of their lives till death took them, they would assuredly believe, feel, and desire precisely as they had believed, felt, and desired during the few preceding weeks. Although Jude is experiencing many of life's emotions and problems for the first time, Hardy points out that many others have lived through similar situations in the past, and will continue to do so. The reference to "plantation girls had given themselves to lovers who would not turn their heads to look at them by the next harvest" resonates in Jude's relationship with Arabella. ![]() This passage is an example of Hardy's extensive reliance on foreshadowing in this novel. But this neither Jude nor the rooks around him considered.” Narrator, Under the hedge which divided the field from a distant plantation girls had given themselves to lovers who would not turn their heads to look at them by the next harvest and in that ancient cornfield many a man had made love-promises to a woman at whose voice he had trembled by the next seed-time after fulfilling them in the church adjoining. “Every inch of ground had been the site, first or last, of energy, gaiety, horse-play, bickerings, weariness. ![]()
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