The one dimensional man in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure ; Thomas Hardy’nin Jude the Obscure eserinde tek boyutlu insan

This article is the revised version of the third chapter in my unpublished PhD dissertation entitled “Gaskell’s North and South, Dickens’s Great Expectations and Hardy’s Jude the Obscure: A Dialectical Social Criticism” (Hacettepe University, 2015). (Bu makale, “Gaskell's North and South, Dickens's Great Expectations ve Hardy'nin Jude the Obscure: a Dialectical Social Criticism” (Hacettepe Üniversitesi, 2015) başlıklı yayınlanmamış doktora tezimin üçüncü bölümünün gözden geçirilmiş bir versiyonudur.) ; Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure (1895) successfully represents the conflict between the individuals and the bourgeois industrial society in the late Victorian period. Herbert Marcuse’s criticism of the contemporary industrial society, which is actually a one dimensional society that imposes absolute norms on the individuals who are forced to become one dimensional wo/men, is quite relevant for a critical approach on this conflict. Marcuse’s approach enables a critical analysis of the social hegemony on such characters as Jude Fawley and Sue Bridehead in the novel. According to Marcuse, the institutionalised form of social oppression on the individuals aims to force people to lead one dimensional lives in accordance with dominant social norms. Marcuse underlines the conflict between individuality and social order. Hence, the protection of social harmony and the established bourgeois social order depends on the subjection of these individuals to the rules of the one dimensional society and actually destroys individuality. So, this article argues that, viewed from Herbert Marcuse’s perspective, social oppression in Hardy’s Jude the Obscure suppresses individuality to create one dimensional characters in a one dimensional society. ; Thomas Hardy’nin Jude the Obscure (1895) eseri bireyler ile geç Viktorya dönemi burjuva sanayi toplumu arasındaki çatışmayı başarılı bir şekilde betimler. Herbert Marcuse’un günümüz sanayi toplumunu sorgulayan yaklaşımı, ki bu toplumsal yapı bireyleri tek boyutlu insanlara dönüşmeye ...