Arabella Don in Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure

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In Jude the Obscure Hardy criticizes the Victorian social structure by displaying the new role that women began to play at the end of the century through his two female characters, Arabella Donn and Sue Bridehead
Arabella Donne is Jude Fawley's first wife in the novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy. She is a devilish woman who tricks him into marrying him at first by pretending that she is pregnant. Near the end of the novel she tricks him into marrying her again by keeping
him drunk and drugged while he is depressed. She also kept all the letters he wrote to Sue Bridehead instead of sending them to her, and never gave him the letters that she wrote to him.
Sue marries Phillotson as a kind of rebuke to Jude for his own marriage to Arabella, and is then repulsed by Phillotson as a husband.
Of course, Sue and Arabella are not just contrasting in their appearance but they have oppositional ideas, beliefs and attitudes towards life
The stark difference in emotion, conversation, and sexual appetite make Sue and Arabella polar opposites in Hardy's Jude the Obscure
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