Dreams and realities in JUde the Obscure and a Kind of Loving

             'Jude the Obscure' and 'A Kind of Loving'
             'Dreams and realities' are both part of life in both different and similar ways. Dreams are what you want whereas reality is what you have. Many dreams can become reality.
             In the case of these two books, 'Jude the Obscure' and 'A Kind of Loving', dreams and reality overlap and conflict with each other to result in unhappiness, in the case of Vic and Ingrid and Jude and Arabella but also happiness and fulfilment like Jude and Sue. Jude Fawley, lives a life of poverty in the village of Marygreen, as a stone-mason, but as a young boy he is effected by his schoolmaster Mr Phillotson, who leaves the village to find a better life as a university student in Christminster, Oxford. This provokes Jude to strive for more, 'his dream'. However, due to circumstances Jude's dream is put aside when he marrys Arabella, (a loveless marriage). Soon, this ends and Jude is free and travels to Christminster where he meets Sue, his cousin who also has dreams.
             Vic Brown, lives in Cressley. His life, it seems, resolves around Ingrid Rothwell, a pretty girl but not entirely Vic's idea of his ideal match for life. Throughout the book Vic refers or visits hid sister, Chris who we perceive as his ideal woman. Each has his own dream, Jude's is to become educated at Christminster, Oxford and to win the heart of his cousin, Sue. Jude's dream of Oxford, although Jude himself is Scholar material has not the finance or the background. University was for the privileged, which unfortunately did not include Jude Fawley. Vic's dream is to be with his ideal woman and live a happy and peaceful life. He sees this woman as Ingrid Rothwell. However, their realities are somewhat different.
             Jude as a nineteen-year-old becomes trapped in a loveless marriage to Arabella.
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