HERE I AM SHARING MY PRESENTATION OF MY M.A COURSE AS MY ACADEMIC WORK.I AM SUBMITTING THIS PRESENTATION TO DR. DILIP BARAD , SMT.S.B. GARDI DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH MKBU

1. Presented by Alpa Ponda
Smt.S.B Gardi Department of English MKBU
Presentation Topic- Tom Jones as Picaresque
novel
Paper no-2
M.A Sem-1
Roll no- 04
Enrolment no- 2069108420170025
Batch -2016-18
Email Id – alpaponda.7@gmail.com

2. TOM JONES NOVEL
 Author – Henry Fielding
 Comical and picaresque novel
 Published on 28 February 1749 in London

4. MEANING OF PICARESQUE
NOVEL
Spanish word “ picaro”
From picaro
Means rogue or rascal

5. DEFINITION
 The picaresque novel is the genre of
prose fiction that depicts the adventures of
a roguish hero/ heroine of low social class
who lives by his or her wits in corrupt
society

6. CHARACTERSTICS
 First person narration
 Main character is often of low character or
low social class
 No plot but stories in series
 Circumstances change but picaro is
always picaro
 Satire

7. THE PROTAGONIST AS PICARO
- Tom humiliated by family and society
- According to his teacher
Tom is wild and Blifil is pious
- Tom frequently steals apples and ducks to
support the family of Black George
- Blifil calls Tom a Bastard

8. RELATIONSHIPS OF TOM WITH
MANY WOMEN
 Molly Seagrim
 She becomes pregnant
 Tom admits that he would
be the father
 Mrs. Waters
 Tom rescues her
 Affair
 Tom goes to London
behind Sophia
 Fall in love with Nancy
 Tom’s affair with Lady
Bellaston
 Sophia’s Aunty

9. HEROINE OF TOM
But we can not forget Sophia who is a
beautiful girl , falls in love with Tom and
also Tom loves Sophia from the
beginning. At the end, Sophia questions
on Tom’s chastity. Then they marries.

10. PICARESQUE TYPE MOVIES
 MOVIE
 Ek Villain
 The hero live a life of
picaresque type

11.  Movie
 Benaam Badshah
 Heroine changes his
life at the end.

12. QUESTIONS ON PICARO
 If a girl is the only changer of Picaro’s
fortune?
 If Picaro has to be guilty for so many
affairs in the novel “Tom Jones”?

13. THANK YOU