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Novel
Second year

Joseph Andrews

Henry Fielding claimed that his novel Joseph Andrews is a “comic
epic in prose”
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In
Joseph Andrews many of the style, plot, and character elements of the epic
genre are present, but there are humorous changes that mockingly place
the Epic in an ordinary light
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The journey taken by our hero is over the English
countryside, not all of Earth and the Heavens
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These, among many others, are ways that Henry
Fielding was able to write an epic and set it in 18th century England
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Most epics started out with a statement of
theme by the author
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What we, as
readers, can take from that is we are about to embark on a novel of moral
instruction with a “good man” as our example to follow
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Joseph
Andrews’ connection with the novel Pamela by Samuel Richardson give it
a story within a story feel
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So, in this way, we are
introduced to Joseph’s most significant, arguably one of his few,
personality traits by having to draw inference on a previous story
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One key element of the epic is the use of
epithets and similes
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The examples are endless
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Slipslop, a haughty housekeeper with a
sloppy vocabulary; Tittle and Tattle, two town gossips; Miss Grave-airs, a
young lady who takes her position in society a bit too seriously;
Fanny Goodwill, Joseph’s love interest with perfect virtue; Beau
Didapper, a young Gentleman with a hopping gait like the little bird he
was named for
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One way this is achieved
is through long, complex sentences
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Fielding’s own apparent regard for classical
education comes through often in the novel and further attributes to the
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elevated style through innumerable insertions of Greek and Latin phrases
and frequent references to ancient philosophy and literature
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We see a comical substitution for this when Adams
begins talking about ancient literature
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Once Adams gets started, he goes on to name near thirty mythological
characters, places, and ancient authors altogether
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Through all of these
obstacles, the hero’s super human strength was able to help him reach his
goal
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The arduous journey is obvious, as the
course of thirty-eight chapters is dedicated to Joseph’s travels only
interrupted by his recovery time at the Tow-Wous’s Inn
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In fact, nearly every person the trio
meets on their journey is of poor character and inferior morality
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Tow-Wous whose greed and stinginess might have killed
Joseph
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Tow-Wous
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Fielding makes a vivid observation that the sins of human beings
can be just as dangerous
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His unbending belief system and hot
temper get him into quite a few physical scrapes
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The
worst group of villains along the way is the group of hunters, led by the
“Hunter of Men,” who not only physically endangers Adams, but later
insults him deplorably
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The leader of the
group sets his sights on Fanny and sends his men to kidnap her
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Of course, a chamber pot is a funny substitution for
a magical sword
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In addition to his super human strength, Andrews embodies the epic
hero because he possesses qualities most valued by society
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His hair was of a nutbrown Colour…His Forehead was high, his Eyes dark…His Nose a little
inclined to the Roman
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In addition to his
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appearance, Andrews never sways in his honesty or virtue, so is
considered a remarkable example of how a young man should be (except
to Lady Booby)
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Henry Fielding’s narrator is all pervasive commentator and creator
he comments on the actions performing the role of being a lens through
which all events and characters are viewed
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In other, words, the
narrator was free to create and judge upon characters, actions and
situations
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The intrusion of the narrator is evidently shown in Chapter ten Book
III, which is entitled “A Discourse Between Poet and player; of No other
use in This History, but to divert the Reader”
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Fanny has been taken off to be raped
by the captain
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This
makes the reader think about the episodes and not merely absorb them
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In the first
chapter, he praises the worth of biography as a method of presenting
moral examples; yet when pressed for classical references, the narrator
claims ignorance and calls ancient languages “unintelligible”
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For example to justify the validity of

Joseph’s life

without knowledge of his ancestry the narrator goes so far as to claim that
it would not matter if Joseph “had sprung up … out of a Dunghill”
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Moreover,
Fielding sometimes distances himself from the narration using the
characters as commentators on other character’s comment on parson
Adams
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Furthermore, Fielding is shown omniscient on commenting parson
Adams trying to compare him to Cervantes’ character of Quixote for
example, in his chapter
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By establishing a

distance between himself and Adams, the narrator is able to ridicule
“Adam’s Vanity without Sacrificing or destroying the reader’s knowledge
of good nature
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There are
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many digressions in the novel, like Wilson’s story which is the most
important one, the peddler’s story of the origin of the Fanny as being
kidnapped by the gypsies
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This
baby boy is discovered to be Joseph Wilson’s story overshadows the Final
solution of the story
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The
story also parallels the main thematic line of temptation and facing
hardships
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She is left with
her lover, but he is disappointed, the first chapters are narrated in form of
pieces of music, between various actors of a play
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Thirdly, the teaching of letter is also one of the main technical
narrative devices
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It is now Joseph who sends many letters, to
Fanny in London and Pamela who married Squire Booby, the nephew of
Late squire Booby
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Fielding mocks the idea of virtue as discussed in
Richardson’s novel through making the tempted person a male figure and
not a female one
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For example, lady Booby,
Mrs
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Lady Booby forgets about her class
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Slipslop attempts to tempt him while
they were in the carriage, accompanied by parson Adams on his horse,
and later walking without a horse,
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Moreover, the nativity of parson Adams is overtly exaggerated
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He is portrayed as excessively native,
sometimes too simple – minded and rather easy to be deceived
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Moreover, he is tainted with the blood of the
pig in the inn
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The most comic scene is when he went t parson Trulliber to borrow
money
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He
was forced to the pig- style “he is thrown all along in the mire” which is a
funny scene
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From
the point they meet each other; they undergo a series of curious events
together in their way back to the country
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The experience on the road with Parson Adams has helped him to
acquire a more realistic and mature way of seeing the world
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He is the “heart of the novel
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3- Episodic structure
The novel comprises many episodes since Joseph decided to leave to
his own country side town, he passed through many episodic adventures
through the inns, firstly, he is being beaten and naked, then fighting with
the innkeeper and his wife along with parson Adams
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For this reason,
the novel is of a loose knit
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For
example, there is the scene of the inn where Parson Adams is covered with
the blood of pig
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Moreover, there
is the scene of both Parson Adams and Parson Trulliber
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He belongs to low class as he works as
servant for Lady Booby
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He
keeps his virtue untouched,

7- Digression
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8- Surprise
The story ends in surprise as Joseph is discovered to be a lost son of
Wilson through strawberry on his shoulder, besides, Fanny is discovered a
sister of Pamela

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