1、Henry Fielding,Henry Fieldings famous plays: The coffee-House Politician, The Tragedy of Tragedies and Pasquin. As a masterpiece on the subject of human nature, The history of Tom Jones, a Foundling brought Fielding the name of the “Prose Homer”. The History of Amelian is a story about the unfortuna
2、te life of an idealized woman, a sad picture of the social life at the time.,Main characters in The history of Tom Jones, a Foundling: Mr. Allworthy, Blifil, Tom Jones and Sophia. An analysis on Tom Jones: For a time, Tome Jones became a national hero. People were fond of this young fellow with manl
3、y virtues and yet not without fault-honest, kind hearted, high-spirited, loyal and brave,but impulsive, wanting prudence and full of animal spirits. In a way, the young man stands for a wayfaring Everyman, who is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of h
4、imself and finally approach perfectness.,Fieldings contributions to literature: 1) He created both in practices and theory to write a “comic epic in prose”. 2) He established the form of the modern novel for he was the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.,3) He adopted “the third-
5、person narration”, in which the author becomes the “all-knowing God.” He thinks the thoughts of all his characters, so he can present not only their external behaviors but also the internal workings of their minds. 4) Fielding was regarded as “Father of the English novel.”,Fielding was sympathetic t
6、oward the poor and the unfortunate, and protested against social injustice and political corruption in his plays. In plotting, he tried to preserve the grand epical form of the classical works but also kept faithful to his realistic presentation of common life. So his works are regarded as “the just copies of human manners”.,Fieldings works are characterized by lively, dramatic dialogues and other theatrical devices such as suspense, coincidence and unexpectedness.,
