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Hardy's 1895 final novel following Jude Fawley — a stonemason's apprentice who dreams of attending Christminster University, is trapped by marriage, and sees every aspiration crushed — ending with the suicide of Jude's son Father Time and Jude's own death, causing a public outcry that led Hardy to abandon novel writing.
Susan Rowland's Jungian reading of Thomas Hardy's fiction — analyzing Hardy's tragic novels through the lens of archetypal psychology, examining how Hardy's characters embody the tension between the solar ego and the chthonic unconscious.