Masterpiece Theatre The six-part dramatization of Thomas Hardy's tragic story of bigamy, marital entrapment, illegitimacy, discrimination and religious hypocrisy. Hardy's tragic hero, a victim of the hypocrisy and social constraints of Victorian Eng... (more)land, is Jude Fawley, an impoverished stonemason who has dreams of escaping the rural village of Marygreen to get a university degree and ecclesiastical ordination in the colleges of Christminster. His dreams quickly become an agonizing journey of frustration and destruction. His interaction with Arabella Donn and Sue Bridehead, the two women in his life, adds the extra dimension of a harsh attack on marriage and Victorian prudishness to the drama. In Episode 1, We meet Jude Fawley, an orphan from a working class family, who lives in the village of Marygreen with his aunt. Jude has a passion for books and learning, and is determined to win a university education. His passion for a pig farmer's daughter, however, forces him into a brief, unfortunate marriage.