![]() ![]() One of the major reasons that causes Hardy to have these views is that he feels religion leads to hypocrisy. People should not be like Jude who becomes obsessed with religion simply because his mentor Phillotson felt this way. He feels that people should not just blindly follow religion without deciding for themselves that this is what they want. ![]() Hardy feels that people should shy away from their old ways of thinking and begin to form new opinions of their own. Phillotson (who leaves for Christminster in order to become ordained), he finds religion and feels that he can use it to help him gain an identity. ![]() By doing this he creates a character who is looking for something to give him an identity. One instance in which Hardy clearly displays this is when he writes, “It had been the yearning of his heart to find something to anchor on, to cling to.” (Ingham, 94) In order to bring out this point Hardy chooses to create Jude as an orphan and has him come from obscure origins. (Ingham, xxvii) Throughout the book, Hardy displays his feeling that religion is something that people use in order to satisfy themselves by giving their lives meaning. In Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, Hardy shows his views on religion and commitment to the Church which were said to have declined in the later years of his life. ![]()
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