Jude the obscure is a novel by Thomas Hardy.

There are two main protagonists: Jude the protagonist, he belongs to the working class, and the female character  Sue,  Jude's  cousin.  

This is one of the most important Victorian novel in which we find a new way on consider life, the problems of class, problems of education, religion and marriage. The typical family should have the father at the centre of the family and he must take care about the family.

The narrator doesn't comment what the two protagonists are doing, but he simply present the scene, he is an omniscient and external narrator. Furthermore he has got a minute attention for details.

In the first sequence is an horrible one because he convey a tragedy, the narrator uses a showing technique to make an idea in the reader. In introducing the children's death he reaches effects.

The second sequence has the function to describe Jude that calls the doctors to help his children. It is a dynamic scene in contrast with the previous static scene. Grotesque is a way to describe, so the narrator obtains a ghostly effect. In addition to this he suggests sounds. These techniques like grotesque, repetition and the way of insist on some aspects are typical of Victorian novels.

The next sequence presents the situation from the point of view of Sue: she thinks she was her cause of the children's death but Jude, that reflected the typical modern man, adopts the scientific perceptive (he studied Darwin at the university). Jude refuses the idea that Sue is guilty, in order to justify his point of view of life, Jude uses the words of the doctor to explain what happened to Jude children. He says that he commits suicide because is in his nature: this is a new view of life that brings the doctor in line with Darwin.

The reader can make sense on what was happened either accepting or refuses the doctor's perception which can came across with Jude's thoughts of life: the reader is shown Jude's argumentation in his words when he reports the doctor point of view.