en to Sue and Jude, they turn to quotations that are throughout their minds (Weinstein 232). Weinstein writes that Sue uses conversation and quotes to assuage the confusion and misery she and Jude felt after their children’s deaths (232).“They are talking about us, no doubt!” moaned Sue. “We are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men!” . . . There is something external to us which says, “You shan’t!” First it said, “You shan’t learn!” Then it said, “You shan’t labour!” Now it says, “You shan’t love!” (346).Sue believes that their children’s deaths were caused by something she said or something she failed to say, but it was the physical affection that drove Father Time to suicide, says Weinstein (233). Arabella effects Jude’s unconscious, so when he is with her he becomes paralyzed and completely gives in to her (Weinstein 234). His paralysis is shown in the lines, “a compelling arm of extraordinary muscular power seized hold of him – something which had nothing in common with the spirits and influences that had move him hitherto” (67-68). Arabella unconsciously affects Jude’s speech as well, notes Weinstein (234). Whenever she asks him to do something, he responds in a passive “Of course,” or “As you like,” even if he has misgivings about it (Weinstein 238). But, Weinstein writes, he doesn’t resent her for this because he isn’t aware it is happening (234). One evening after Jude had been with Arabella he comes home and sees his books: “There lay his book open, just as he had left it, and the capital letters on the title-page regarded him with fixed reproach in the gray starlight, like the unclosed eyes of a dead man” (Hardwick 70). Jude has easily given in to her dominance, “a trap [that is] very steely” (Hardw...
