Compare Jude the Unknown with a Greek tragedy

Sophocles "Oedipus the King":

Oedipus (or Dipus, sometimes spelled oidipous) was the king of Thebes in Greek mythology, the son of kings Laius and Iocast, who, without knowing it, killed his father and married his mother.

When his son Oedipus was born, an oracle said that he would be killed by his son, and to escape his fate, Laius impaled the newborn's ankle (oidipous means "swollen foot" in Greek) and abandoned him in the wilderness to die. However, the shepherds who carried out the order took pity on him and secretly passed the baby to the king of Corinth, where they raised him as if he were his own son, and when Oedipus grew up, because the oracle of the temple of Tephir said that he would kill his father and marry his mother, and did not know that the king and queen of Corinth were not his own parents, Oedipus, so as to avoid the oracle coming true, he left Corinth and vowed never to return. While wandering near Thebes, Oedipus clashes with a group of strangers on a fork in the road and accidentally kills someone, including his own father.

Thebes was trapped by the Sphinx, a sphinx, because he would grab everyone who passed by and tear them apart if they couldn't solve his riddle. In order to get out of trouble, Thebes announced that whoever could solve the puzzle and save Thebes from the mouth of the Sphinx would obtain the throne and marry the widow of King Laius. Later, it was Oedipus who solved the riddle of the Sphinx and rescued Thebes.

He also inherited the throne and, without knowing it, married his own mother, and had two sons and two girls. Later, plagues and plagues plague plagues plague the country ruled by Oedipus, so the king asked the gods only to know why the plagues were coming. Finally, under the revelation of the prophet Tiresias (Tiresias), Oedipus learned that he was the son of Laius, and finally fulfilled his unfortunate fate of killing his father and marrying his mother.

Shocked, Iocaster hanged himself in shame, while Oedipus, who was equally grief-stricken, stabbed himself in the eye.

Not at all ...

I think it's more like hunger with Faust.

But if I had to talk about ancient Greek drama, I think it would probably be "Medea".

It is more likely to be Aeschylus' triptych "Orestia", "Aagamenon", and "The Drinker".

It should be "Orestes", "Agamemnon", "The Drinker", not "Agamemnon", hehe.

Artistic features. 1) The dilution of the plot next to the dust.

The main features of the 20th century**. First of all, it is not that there is no plot, but that the plot replaces the external events with the psychological world, which is relative to the 19th century tradition**, which emphasizes the psychological space. Secondly, it is not a purely technical thing, but a reflection of the writer's philosophy of life, an experience of the heart.

2) Open-ended ending.

3) The use of symbolism.

a. Give life meaning to natural scenes. The prosperity of all things is in contrast to the fate of man, and they are all full of symbolic meaning. Spring Tess is as pure as snow and full of vitality.

Autumn was humiliated and returned to his hometown. Xia and Keqiao Shilai fell in love. Winter Tess is abandoned after marriage and wanders around.

The combination of time and space transformation and the fate of the characters, alternately arranged, and the zigzag transformation symbolizes the bumps in the fate of the characters and sets off the pessimism of the fate of the characters.

b. The cyclical nature of time, the overlap of progressive spiral development, allows the fate of the characters to be compared in the cycle of time, showing the large jump in the time of the story and the phases of the fate of the characters.

Such as "Card" three September. "Tess" two Chinese New Year's Eve. In the cycle of time, the fate of the characters deteriorates and leads to a tragic end.

c. Spatial repetition. Compare the changes in the fate of the characters. 

Several changes in the village, the unimportant environment is highlighted by Hardy's repetitive depictions. Human life is insignificant to history, and the scope of human activities is insignificant to space, which makes people feel a faint sorrow, pay attention to the unity of time and space, and grasp the changes of time and space to express the tragic fate of characters.

Jude's tragic fate in "The Nameless Jude" has a certain social significance. It shows that under an irrational social system, even a talented, idealistic, and studious young farmer like Jude is "unambitious" and unable to realize his ideals. **Through the tragedy of Jude and Sook, it also points out how stereotypes such as social morality and the marriage system can stifle people's free will and reasonable aspirations.

However, the author also attributes the tragedy of the young man's marriage to a religious struggle between the spirit and the flesh, to the play of fate against them and their rebellion against the fate of the family, thus mystifying this social tragedy and weakening the critical and accusative power of the work. **'s heroes and heroines don't have Tess's spirit of resistance; All this shows the author's ideological limitations and the deepening of the spiritual crisis.

This is his last novel**. The work tells the story of Jude, a promising young farmer, who is disillusioned in an irrational capitalist society. Jude has been diligent and studious since he was a child, and he has often encountered ups and downs in love, which is rare for happiness.

Hit by a series of unfortunate events, he fell in despair and died of alcoholism. This ** reflects that in the dark capitalist society, the lower classes of people cannot get a perfect life, even if a talented and idealistic young peasant like Jude is still desperate in the end. It also condemns the education system and abnormal marital relationships in capitalist society.

1958, "The Nameless Jude", translated by Zhang Guruo, People's Literature Publishing House, Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House (1981)1999, "The Nameless Jude", translated by Duxingdu, Southern Publishing House, 1999, "The Nameless Jude", translated by Liu Rongyue, China Peace Publishing House, New Century Publishing House, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, Beiyue Literature and Art Publishing House (2000)1999, "The Nameless Jude", translated by Xi Fan, Yilin Publishing House, 1999, "The Nameless Jude", translated by Zipei and Zhang Min, Huacheng Publishing House, 2000, "The Unknown Jude", translated by Li Jianli, World Book Publishing 2000, "The Unknown Jude", translated by Fang Hua, Shaanxi People's Publishing House, 2010, "The Nameless Jude", translated by Geng Zhi and Xiao Liming, Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House.