Comment on the Role of Fate in Fielding’s Novel “Tom Jones”. Would You Describe This Role as Benevolent?
Comment on the role of fate in Fielding’s novel “Tom Jones”. Would you describe this role as benevolent? Base your opinion on examples of the text.
This essay aims to explore Henry Fielding’s art of moral teaching in “The history of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, as the author originally entitled it, and the role and function of fate in characters’ lives. In this writing Fielding does not try to create utterly good or evil characters; instead he simply depicts them as what they are.
“It is identical to a soap opera” (A book review). This book deals with everything from treachery to lust to deceit. “Acquired a discretion and prudence very uncommon in one of his lively parts”- This is a quote from Squire Allworthy to Tom. I believe Fielding wrote that novel to entertain, to inspire hope in the people of this time. He wanted them to go for their dreams and never to give up. But most of all this is for entertainment. Humans like to see lives that are in more turmoil than their own. He achieves this by using characters that seem to be imaginable, interweaves their lives and after that lets everything to their own fate. Everything changes from the beginning of the novel to the end. It has a happy ending and finally I can say that fate appears with its benevolent role in the characters’ lives. When the reader believes that they have something pinned, Fielding puts in another twist that sends your senses spiraling.
The author names the theme of the story: human nature. He intends to represent human nature initially in its plain and simple form as found in the country and later as it is in the courts and cities. The climax reveals the
This essay aims to explore Henry Fielding’s art of moral teaching in “The history of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, as the author originally entitled it, and the role and function of fate in characters’ lives. In this writing Fielding does not try to create utterly good or evil characters; instead he simply depicts them as what they are.
“It is identical to a soap opera” (A book review). This book deals with everything from treachery to lust to deceit. “Acquired a discretion and prudence very uncommon in one of his lively parts”- This is a quote from Squire Allworthy to Tom. I believe Fielding wrote that novel to entertain, to inspire hope in the people of this time. He wanted them to go for their dreams and never to give up. But most of all this is for entertainment. Humans like to see lives that are in more turmoil than their own. He achieves this by using characters that seem to be imaginable, interweaves their lives and after that lets everything to their own fate. Everything changes from the beginning of the novel to the end. It has a happy ending and finally I can say that fate appears with its benevolent role in the characters’ lives. When the reader believes that they have something pinned, Fielding puts in another twist that sends your senses spiraling.
The author names the theme of the story: human nature. He intends to represent human nature initially in its plain and simple form as found in the country and later as it is in the courts and cities. The climax reveals the
Cited: Literary Criticism (1400-1800) Google Books Criticisms and Interpretations IV. By Gordon Hall Gerould Selected essays of Henry Fielding Lothar Cerny, "Reader Participation and Rationalism in Fielding 's Tom Jones