Introduction Although Henry Fielding (1707-1754) wrote many literary works I am going to deal mainly with his major novels‚ Joseph Andrews‚ \and Amelia. All of these works contain a strong moral message‚ but the moral message is not entirely consistent‚ and is presented in various ways. One of Fielding’s main concerns was the question of marriage. His ideas on marriage are concisely summed up by All worthy in his sermon on matrimony: I have always thought love the only foundation of happiness
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Joseph Andrews as a Picaresque Novel Joseph Andrews as a Picaresque Novel Joseph Andrews‚ or The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams‚ was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding and among the first novels in the English language. Henry Fielding along with Samuel Johnson is considered to be the founder of English novel. Henry Fielding was in fact a satirist and initially he was known for his satirical
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“Joseph Andrews” as a Picaresque Novel ________________________________________________ What is a picaresque novel? The term picaresque has been derived from the Spanish word picaro which means a rogue or a villain. Originally‚ a type of romance that dealt with rogues or villains was called picaresque. A picaresque novel presented ‚ in an extravagant style‚ a series of adventures ‚ and misadventures ‚ mostly on the highways . The earliest examples of the picaresque novel are Lizaritle de
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JOSEPH ANDREWS BY HENRY FIELDING Q Write a note on social criticism as presented in book I and book II of this novel. This novel is basically a satire on mode of living of the social classes of 18th century. The most promising and solid features (as a means of social criticism) that one might extract from the novel‚ in the light of book I and book II are highlighted as below: Artificiality of love Here the example of lady booby explains the point clearly. She loved Joseph as claimed by herself
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Questions on Joseph Andrews 1. Comment on the character of Joseph Andrews and his role in the novel. J.Andrews is the hero after whom the novel is named. He is the chief protagonist of the novel. His physical appearance fascinates Lady Booby and also Mrs. Slipslop‚ and later‚ Betty the servant-maid at an inn. Lady Booby becomes infatuated with him only on account of his handsome appearance‚ because socially speaking he was greatly inferior to her. Joseph possesses many qualities of
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Book I The novel begins with the affable‚ intrusive narrator outlining the nature of our hero. Joseph Andrews is the brother of Richardson’s Pamela and is of the same rustic parentage and patchy ancestry. At the age of ten years he found himself tending to animals as an apprentice to Sir Thomas Booby. It was in proving his worth as a horseman that he first caught the eye of Sir Thomas’s wife‚ Lady Booby‚ who employed him (now seventeen) as her footman. After the death of Sir Thomas‚ Joseph finds that
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Joseph Andrewsis a picaresque novel of the road; the title page tells us that it was "Written in Imitation of the Manner of CERVANTES‚ Author of Don Quixote." Despite its looseness of construction‚ however‚ Joseph Andrews does make a deliberate move from the confusion and hypocrisy of London to the open sincerity of the country; one might perhaps apply Fielding’s own words in a review he wrote of Charlotte Lennox’sThe Female Quixote: ". . . here is a regular story‚ which‚ though possibly it is not
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TOM JONES BY HENRY FIELDING · Tom Jones is represented in the progressing development in his personality. It is sometimes moral‚ misbehave and illegitable boy. · He is not fixed charachter. · End of the novel character has changed ( Tom Jones). In terms of spiritually‚ he has grown. · Major elements of epic are quest and journey. · Romance---Love between Sophia and Tom Jones. · Seriousness and comedy are another issues. He belives in the idea of mixtured. · Henry Fielding represents diversity
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during the competition. This saying does not stand true in Chad Harbach’s‚ The Art of Fielding‚ a novel that focuses on the lives of five characters at a fictional‚ Wetish College. One of the main characters‚ Henry Skrimshander is recruited to Westish for baseball by a player‚ Mike Schwartz.‚ and eventually becomes a top MLB prospect. During his junior year‚ Henry has experience that change his outlook on life. Henry originally‚ has one goal in life‚ to play professional baseball‚ but his experience
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5. In his Preface to ‘Joseph Andrews’‚ Fielding claims that human vices in his novel are ‘never set forth as the objects of ridicule but detestation’. To what extent are ‘Joseph Andrews’ and ‘Robinson Crusoe’ concerned with issues of morality? Despite the fact that ‘Joseph Andrews’ and ‘Robinson Crusoe’ approach their concern with issues of morality differently‚ they both interrogate the subject to the extent whereby‚ throughout the majority of both novels‚ they reveal and question existing ideals
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