This document is a paper about the role of society in Henry Fielding's novel "Tom Jones". It discusses several aspects of the urban society portrayed in the novel, including the characters, lifestyles, institutions, female roles, and politics. The paper examines how these elements of 18th century English society influenced the life of the protagonist Tom Jones and helped shape his destiny.

1. NAME : GOND ASMITA K
ROLL NO : 2ND
PAPER :2nd (Neoclassical literature)
TOPIC : Role of society in Tom Jones
CLASS : (M. A.) SEM -1
GUIDE : PROF. HEENA ME’M
YEAR : 2014-16
E-MAIL ID : asmita.gond414@gmail.com
SUBMITTED TO : MAHARAJA KRISHN KUMAR SINH
JI BHAVNAGAR UNIVERSITY.
ENROLLMENT NO.: 14101017

2. ABOUT HENRY FIELDING
Was a learned and well
educated
He has written only
farce, ballad, burlesque,
and adaption from
French
He has an experience as
dramatist also(1728-37)
Was known as the busy
person

3. WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING
He has written many works
His best known four novels are:
1. ‘JOSEPH ANDREWS’
2. ‘JONATHA WILD’
3. ‘TOM JONES’
4. ‘AMELIA’

4. TOM AS A PROTAGONIST
Tom as
an
infant
Falls
in
love
Love
triang
le
Happy
Ending
Sadn
ess in
Tom
Tom
Jones

5. TOM SEARCHING HIS DESINY
When we meet first time he
was a foundling
Helpful with goodness of the
heart
A common man
Searching for good life
Society plays vital role in his
life

6. ROLE OF SOCIETY IN TOM JONES
William Hazlitt exaggerated by observing the
Fielding's novel the Urban society
Characters
Lifestyle
 Bad Highway
The role of institutes
Role of female characters
Role of politics

7. URBAN SOCIETY IN TOM JONES

8. CHARACTERS ARE IN TOM JONES
 Neither Angelic nor diabolic but real one
Educated and well natured
Clearly distinguished one another
Transcribed from human life
Contrast with one another
Lower and middle class homely and
pedestrian

10. LIFESTYLE
We can see vanity and
affection
Passion to be a richer
Addicted to eating and
drinking
Contrast with each other
like Tom and Blifil
Destroys the piece of
social life

11. FREE LIFESTYLE

12. BAD HIGHWAYS IN LONDON
Full of robbers
It was not safe for
women travel alone
 Good place of Tom’s
adventure

13. ROLE OF INSTITUTE
Public school seems to
be inefficient
We can see exposed and
corrupt atmosphere
For Tom and Blifil
arranged private tutor by
Allworthy

14. ROLE OF FEMALE CHARECTERS
• Women were shown
disgustful and without
pity
• Sophia’s love triangle
brakes Tom’s life
• Not get protection from
man

15. ROLE OF POLITICS
Politics shows the
mirror of the society.
Judge also do wrong
judgments.
Politics were
corrupted.

16. CONCLUSION
We can see hear that society plays vital role in
Tom’s life
Either good or bad
Society makes so much changes in his life