The extract is taken from Mr. Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure. This novel and the whole Wessex Novel are considered a Victorian reaction product.

In the first sequence the reader is in front of a tragedy in which the narrator does not express any judgement. The narrator through a detail description leaves the reader free to create and idea about the situation in his mind. The narrative technique used is the showing, the narrator tells exactly the actions, as a camera in a film.

The second sequence has the function to show the reader what Jude does after has seen the children. The narrator seems be absent but he is present in the description and in the ghastly atmosphere he has create. In the expression triplet of little corps emerges a sense of grotesque.

In the third sequence the narrator gives the reader Sue's point of view, she feels guilty to children's dead.

In the end sequence at Sue's feel of guilty Jude answers she has any fault and he supports his thesis by the doctor's words. Jude becomes a prototype of modern man because adopts a scientific perspective. He is according to doctor's theory and defines him an advance man. To say that there is not any filter and the narrator leaves the reader free to be agree or not with this sentence.