Jude the Obscure accuses the bourgeoisie of unreasonable education system and marriage system. Jude is an orphan in the countryside of Wessex. He was smart and studious since he was a child, with excellent grades. He is bent on going to Christian Temple University. In his mind, it is a "city of light" with a "tree of knowledge" and a "place where human tutors appear". He finally went to the Christian church. On the way, due to emotional fragility and ignorance, he married arabella, the butcher's daughter, and divorced soon. After arriving at the Christian temple, he ran around, but he was always rejected by higher education institutions. He finally realized that he was "squeezed out by the sons of millionaires" and that the bourgeois education system represented by Christian Temple was "for those who have a lot of money". He indignantly accused this unreasonable education system in front of the masses, and at the same time attributed his life's frustration to misfortune and addiction. In order to make a living, he became a stonemason again. By chance, he met his cousin Shu Bradeher, and they hit it off. They finally lived together and had children. Because they live together unmarried, which is forbidden by etiquette and customs, they are discriminated against everywhere. Not only were they fired, but they couldn't even find a place to live. They can only wander around. When children grow up, they feel that they are dragging their parents down. After the boss hanged his brother in the hotel, he hanged himself. Shu completely collapsed for this, and finally returned to her original husband, feeling like a stake. She thinks this is God's punishment. After Shu left, Jude returned to arabella in despair. Before he died, he said very sadly, "May the day when I was born be destroyed, and may the night when a boy was thrown into the womb be destroyed."

Jude's tragic fate shows that under the unreasonable social system, even a talented, idealistic and studious young farmer like him is "frustrated" and unable to realize his ideals. Through their love tragedies, writers point out how unreasonable marriage system and social morality stifle people's free will and reasonable wishes.

Among all Hardy's novels, Jude the Obscure is a novel with a long time span. At the beginning of the story, the protagonist is only eleven years old, his parents are dead, he is poor and lonely, but his ambition to make progress has been deeply buried in his young mind. He started as a page in a country bakery and later became an apprentice to a stonemason. After hard work, he groped for self-study, removed many obstacles, and came to the Christian temple (referring to Oxford) which he regarded as the holy land of knowledge. However, as a stonemason, he can only wander outside the gate of Guangsha Deep Courtyard of an institution of higher learning for a long time. He just turned 30 and died before his ambition was rewarded. The experience of attacking Germany this time is a reflection of a generation of knowledgeable young workers demanding to change the status quo after the gradual popularization of rural education in Britain in the second half of the19th century. As an icon craftsman who inherited his father's footsteps, Shu is also a young woman with a normal education, and her social status is similar to Jude's. But as a woman, her thoughts and words reflected the budding feminist movement in Britain at that time. In temperament, she accepted the new trend of thought more keenly and radically than Jude. Not as brave as the evil forces. In real life, this type of young men and women have always been successful through self-struggle, but in the end it is rare; Under normal circumstances, it is always restricted by the social conditions at that time, and it is difficult to achieve even at a high and painful price. Hardy created this pair of losers with his self-proclaimed "sincere" novelist attitude, which itself has a kind of social criticism.