『무명의 주드』의 현대성

The Instability of Jude the Obscure

&nbsp;&nbsp;This paper questions the largely accepted view that Jude the Obscure attacks established religion, university education, institution of marriage in England, which demonstrates Hardy&quot;s social and historial concerns in his century. Jude the Obscure is, in fact, too insecure to simply reflect the social situations of Victorian society; it resists a unified, stable understanding of the text, never failing to reveal the gap between reality and language. The main character, Jude, is obsessed with logocentric desire, whilst the realization of logocentric desire and metaphysical goal is always deferred. This deferance unsettles the ultimate meaning of the text and refuses the immediacy and presence of a final signified. Textual free play and complex grain ultimately block contemporary social problems.<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;The main characters of Jude the Obscure are trapped within the thick web of alluded voices. Jude, Sue and other characters are not free from literary and non-literary precedents; they are constructed by diverse literary and cultural systems. The complex network of textual relations never allows a single origin or a presupposed unified consciousness in the text. Jude the Obscure ruins the prospects of interpretation, never fully satisfying the critics who seek a unifying formal principle in this text. Jude the Obscure dismantles unified and totalizing consciousness far ahead of his time by illustrating the sites of diverse social codes and voices.