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Novel
Both Charity and Chastity belong to the concept of morality
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He considers
morality stemming out of virtue and not religion; to be moral is to be
virtuous and to be immoral is to commit vice
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Chastity: Chastity in Joseph Andrews is the motivating attitude beyond
the events
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The same is applied in the case of Joseph who refuses the attempts of
the lustful lady Booby
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Neither temptation nor threats can persuade him to
surrender his virtue with Job or without Job, he is not willing to
compromise with his honour
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Both Fanny and Joseph are set in contrast to other
obscene characters like lady Booby, Mrs
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Charity: Charity for Fielding is measured by man’s inner goodness
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Thus Fielding advances a very sound moral philosophy which is different
from that of Richardson
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He always helps others who are in trouble
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One the other
hand Parson Trulliber refuses to lend a few pennies to Adams condemning
him
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There are many other situations which show Charity in the novel
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A poor
Pedlar is really a good man because he offers whatever he has to relieve
the distressed Adams
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The surgeon refuses to check Joseph except after having money
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Moreover,
a squire kills all the dogs of the farmers to make hunt alone
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All
the situations show the lack of charity in the society
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Many critics agree that the structure of Joseph Andrews is loose
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The novel depends on many episodes
the idea of journey, the digression and the chance
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It depends on many episodes like the stage coach episode, Mr
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Episodic structure “journeys”: The novel depends on the concept of a
journey taken mainly from the picaresque tradition
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After
lady Booby’s attempts to seduce Joseph, he leaves London to Somerset shire
where Fanny lives
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At an inn, he comes across Parson Adams, his
spiritual guide, on his way to London to sell his sermons, but he left them
behind
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Other adventures on the roadside lie in the rescue of Adams for
Fanny
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Wilson
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The digressions: There are three digressions the story of Leonara in
Book II, the story of Mr
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The third one is only a minor one
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Wilson’s story is
relevant to the main novel in the sense that it ridicules the vice and
reinforces the morality of the Fielding’s novel
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Like Wilson’s story, Leonara’s story is constructed to show the idiotic
behaviour of Leonara in opposition to Pamela
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Both stories expose the vanity and the hypocrisy among the
rural folk
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Leonara sheds the light on the story of
Pamela
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Wilson’s story also sheds the light on lady Booby’s world
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It is chance which throws
Fanny on the way to Adams
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Wilson by the mere chance
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All these coincide events weaken the
main backbone of the story
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Henry Fielding himself confirms
that “I believe I might say that I have written more than I have seen”
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Fielding throughout his novel confirms that to be moral is to be
virtuous; o be immortal is to commit vice”
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Selfishness is also is also a matter of Satire
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He receives no sympathy
from except by poor position
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This poverty represented
in this situation is said to be spreading in all England at that time
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This shows how Fielding satirizes the
concept of selfishness as an immoral feeling
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The country side poor people are a spot of insult and degradation
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She doesnot care of
the servants get their wages in time or not
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On going to hunt, he breaks the hedges of his own
neighbour (a farmer)
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This shows how immortality is shown through the behaviours of the high
class people
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Man’s goodness is marked by his ability
to assist those in trouble, by offering them money
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Adams, at one stage, is afraid that he may
be considered unchristian because he has no money to relieve a poor
priest
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Fielding through his novel
proves “If true goodness shows itself in active charity, therefore true
religion must encourage good works as well as correct Faith”
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Lady Booby represents lust
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Slipslop’s sexual behaviour is a kind of supression of the sex instinct for a
long time during her youth
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In contrast to these ladies, there is Betty the chambermaid who
is moved with real sympathy for Joseph and feels warmed up by his
youthful looks
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So, through these characters, fielding portrays the aspect of
both immorality and morality through the form of satire
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He satirizes bad priests so that they
may become good priests
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He satirizes scandal mongering and hypocrisy and other
fashions of the city in 18th century
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The 18th century introduces objective realism
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The 20th century writers call this kind realism
a native one
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Henry Fielding writes about
the sophisticated life in London including the moral the political and the
religious aspects
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This is a
kind realism
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In Joseph Andrews, there are many realistic elements, which give us
a picture of real human world
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They begin a
journey passing by the inn in which Parson fights the host
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He is left half-naked without food or water
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Secondly, the theme of the novel itself is a realistic one
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Parson Adams is an idealistic Parson who is very
brave and kind
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He also saves Fanny from the kidnappers
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Parson Trulliber, on the other hand, refuses to help Parson Adams by
giving him money
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He is
more interested in eating the biscuits than prayer, when he is brought to
make Joseph pray during hid illness
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Fielding also wants to uncover the vanity of certain aristocratic class
like lady Booby and the Squires
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She misuses her authority to prevent
the marriage of both Fanny and Joseph
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Slipslop
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All these aspects are criticized through
satire
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He criticized his characters through their description
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He stands between the reader and the character by giving the
reader a ready-made idea
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He is
portrayed as nice person, so the people give him higher cost than
a
country Parson
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He accompanies
Joseph throughout his journey till the end of the novel
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Slipslop is
another realistic character
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She
preserves some respect because she is a serving maid
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She argues him about
matters of religion
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She
tells him that she goes to London and knows more about the world
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She doesn’t have the pretending knowledge that he has
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So, both Parson Adams and Mrs
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Fourthly, Digression is one of the realistic elements in Joseph
Andrews
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There are two digressions; firstly the story of Mr
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The second digression is
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about the story of Leonara and her two fiancées
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At the end, they fight and both them refuse her
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But, there are two unrealistic elements in the novel, firstly, the
dialogues between Joseph and Parson as it is not accepted by the 18 thC
people
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Secondly, the exaggerated idealism drawn
through the character of Parson Adams
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The story of Joseph Andrews is mainly a parody for Richardson’s
Pamela
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His journey to Somerset
shire to win his five lady Fanng
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From Book I chapter 14
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In the beginning,
he is supposed to be the only son of Gaffar and Gammer Andrews and
brother to Richardson’s Pamela, but at the end of the novel, he is
discovered to be the son of Mr
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He is given to Mr
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This goes on,
till he is gathered with his own lady, fanny
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He has
unparson-like appearance
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His legs are so
long that they almost touch the ground
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He
is a real Christian who has nobility of heart
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Adam’s behaviours are shown in some cases humourous and ideal in
other times
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He
goes to Trulliber asking him for, a loan
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He saves also the girl, captured by the fouls of a sequire in a very
sincere Christian way
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In the story of Lady Booby with Joseph Andrews, Adams shows rare
courage and nobility
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He also has involved in
solving the clues at the end of the novel
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He builds a dream world, in his case from the tenets of a
simple Christianity
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His
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religion is broad
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His in the habbit of snapping his fingers
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He is portrayed like Quixote in having idealism which never make
him exhausted of his own misadventures
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Adams is an epitome of
idealistic character which is drawn to show uncovering vanity of the
eighteenth century people
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The picaresque novel is originally such a story, which has
picaroon (Spanish picaroon), or a rogue as its hero or heroine
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It has a sequence of episodes united only by the presence of the presence
of the central character who goes through a long journey through roads
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Yet, he doesn’t present a Picaro hero or the villain
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He is always absent-minded
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He is not like the traditional picaresque hero
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He is influenced by Don Quixote
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From chapter 10 book I to the end of book III, Joseph sets out on his
journey
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Secondly, during
the novel, the hero is accompanied by a companion who is a half servant
and a half friend
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The hero Parson Adams, as a half master,
continues the journey with Joseph
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They have gone through a lot of actions like the fight in
the inn
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He
fights the host
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Thirdly, both the hero and his
companion have warm and humorous conversation
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For example, Parson Adams forgets his own horse
outside the inn and when he gets it, he doesn’t recognize it
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But Parson himself
refuses this philosophy when he knows that his son is drowned
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This kind of conversation is not realistic
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Fifthly, as a picaresque novel, Joseph Andrews has a thin plot
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The plot and the characters are not
linked by a cause-and effect relation; Joseph gets robbed for no cause and
this robbery has no effect in the main plot
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Sixthly, one of the aims of Joseph Andrews as a picaresque novel is to
make people laugh, for example when Parson Adams tries to check the
hog in the inn, the hog kicks him
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Seventhly, the Picaresque novel include the element of satire, which exists
in Joseph Andrews
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He criticizes
the aspect of the appearance and reality
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Joseph is discovered to be the son of Wilsons and Fanny
is discovered to be Pamela’s sister, and thus they are saved protected and
married
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This form has many features such as the existence of comic
and the serious elements together, the individual action, the existence of
fable and the presence of common ridiculous traits
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All these features are different from the serious epic form
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For
example, when Joseph Andrews and Parson Adams fight the hounds
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The battle
exists in Homer’s Iliad
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There is another scene in which both comic and serious elements go
side by side, when the innkeeper finds a man who has an injured leg
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The comic epic has a fable but it is more complex than the serous
one
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But in Joseph Andrews there is a complex structure
through the elements of discovery, digression, and the chapter of Parson
Adams
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Wilson
recognizes his own son Joseph Andrews by the mark of
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strawberry on his chest this is repeated in Oedipus but in another serious
way
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The
stories of both Leonara with her two fiance’es Horatio and Bellarmine, and
the story of Mr
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Leonara is an attractive
lady who leaves Horatio but is pushed to accept Bellarmine
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Both of them leave her, later on, without saying a
word
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Wilson’s long history is full of faithful women relations
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Then, after many relations, he is
persuaded with his own wife and his three pretty children
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Slipslop, Parson
Barnabas and others
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He refuses to
give Parson Adams money although he is in need for it
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He prefers to have a sneeker and a cup of tea to
making Joseph confess his sins through his illness
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Booby who
insults her servants with bad name
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Mrs
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She thinks that she is a woman of a great
learning and she belongs to high class, but she is not
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He is portrayed like Cervantes’ Don Quixote
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He preaches Christianity and charity
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He has wrinkled cheeks
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He is
exposed to many comic scenes like the hog scene in the inn
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Finally, Fielding calls his novel epic because of the amount of ideas
and moral lessons he wants to convey
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