This document summarizes the controversy surrounding Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover when they were originally published. Both novels dealt frankly with sexuality and relationships, which outraged Victorian morality. Jude the Obscure was criticized for its depictions of premarital relationships and attacks on religion. Lady Chatterley's Lover's explicit descriptions of an extramarital affair caused an obscenity trial when it was published in Britain in the 1960s. The novels highlighted the changing social values between the Victorian era and modern times.
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3. Jude the Obscure and Chatterley’s
Lover
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4. Hardy and Laurance
Thomas Hardy
1840-1928
Victorian novelist
Realistic
Depicted reality of that era
D.H. Lawrence
1907-1930
D.H. Lawrence, in full David
Herbert Lawrence,
English author of novels, short
stories, poems, plays, essays, travel
books, and letters.
5. Theme of the both work
Jude The Obscure
Marriage
Education
Social Class
Religion
Women’s Right
Old Versus New
Disappointment
Itinerancy
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Sexuality as Self Development
Male/ Female Relationship
Language
Culture Decay in a Time of Modernity
Class Relations
Industrial Life and the Mechanism of
Society
Intellectual Culture
6. According to Cedric Watt
When Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure appeared in 1895, it immediately
caused scandal and controversy. Its frank treatment of Jude’s sexual
relationships with Arabella and Sue, its scathing criticisms of late-Victorian
hypocrisy, its depiction of the “New Woman,” and its attacks on “holy
wedlock” and religious bigotry outraged numerous reviewers; one called
the book “Jude the Obscene.” Others saw it as brilliantly progressive in its
ideas and techniques. Vivid and complex, satiric and harrowing, this novel
marked the culmination of Hardy’s development as a leading novelist of
the cultural transition from the Victorian to the Modernist era. The
Broadview edition restores the original, controversial 1895 text.
7. Article on the trial day
Despite having been published in Italy
in the1920s, D. H. Lawrence’s last
novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover,
became the subject of much
controversy in Britain in the 1960s
when Penguin Books sought to
publish it. The book describes the
explicit affair between Lady Chatterley
and her working-class gamekeeper.
The sexual scenes are described in
detail, and were considered shocking
by the British establishment at the
time, as was the use of strong
language.
8. Love as a Serious and
Sacred Theme; LADY
CHATTERLEY'S LOVER.
By D. H. Lawrence.
Introduction by Mark
Schorer. Preface by
Archibald MacLeish. 368
pp. New York: The Grove
Press.
9. When the both work were published , that time so many hurdles were
happened.
So many copies were burned.
Churches were totally against this books.
Causes : - Reality depiction
10. Various movies which has same
incidence
Ram Leela: Delhi Court
OKs Controversial Film
After Name Change
The original title of
Bollywood’s Romeo and
Juliet offended some
Hindus.
11. TANDAV
Amazon India head of
content, 'Tandav' web
series producer, director
and writer have been
charged with hurting
religious sentiments of
Hindus
12. Citation
Cedric, Watts. "Jude the Obscure." Jude The Obscure (1999).
Forster, E.M. "The Innocence of Lady Chatterley." Penguin Books (1960).
Hardy, Thomas. "Jude The Obscure." Hardy, Thomas. New Wessex Edition , 1840. 362.
Mark Scholar. "Love as a Serious and Sacred Theme: LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER." New
York : The Grove Press (1959).
Quigley, J.T. "Ram Leela: Delhi Court OKs Controversial Film After Name Change." The
Diploment (2013).
Rashid, Omar. "' Tandav ' crew and cast issue apology." The Hindu (2021)