Topic: tom jones as a unheroic hero

1. Name: Jankiba K. Rana
Paper: Neo Classical Literature
M.A. Sem- I Roll No: 11
Year 2014-2015

2.  Henry Fielding was well known
novelist & Drametist.
 Born on April 22, 1707 in England.
 Educated from Eton College.
 Trained in Law.
 His Literary career was began in
London.
 Best known works are Tom Jones,
Miscellanies and Amelia.
 He criticized Government and social
convetions.
 Died on October 8, 1774 in
Libson,Portugal.

4.  May not essentially be physically brave or ideal,
but he should have good intentions.
 The heroes in the past had been brave, heroic and
extraordinary.
 Fielding derives away from this tradition and
chooses the common men as heroes of his novels
and portrays them with all their weaknesses,
sexual immorality, etc.

5.  Walter Allen who once remarked that “Tom Jones
was a new type of hero; one might say the
unheroic hero”.
 Tom is innately good in pursuit of wisdom, which
Tom finally attains in his union with Sophia. His
exuberant nature has now matured to a wise
discernment of virtue.
 It’s certainly easier to make good men wise is the
story of a foundling whom nature has endowed
with physical beauty and happy vitality. But the
young Tom did not always act rightly, so that he
seems to be something like an unheoric hero.

6.  He acts on inpulse sometimes well, sometimes ill
and he lacks a settled kind of duty.
 He was sexual adventures with molly saegrim,
Jenny waters and the lady of Bellaston.

7.  In completeness of human being
 No one is perfect or having 32 virtues in soul.
 E.g. Tom is neither completely good nor evil. On
one hand he is tempted for physical relationship
on other hand he is generous man.
 Through out the novel no one is perfect or
incomplete.
 They are weather good or bad.

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