This document contains information about a student named Nikita Rathod who submitted a paper on the neo-classical literature novel "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding. The paper discusses Tom Jones as the protagonist and hero of the novel, describing his virtues of being good-hearted, generous, and handsome, but also having faults like a quick temper and carelessness. It analyzes Tom's character and his journey of self-discovery.

1.  Name :- Rathod Nikita P.
 Roll no :- 32
 Sem :- M.A. Sem-1
 Enrollment no :- 2069108420190038
 Paper no :- 2 ( The Neo-Classical Literature )
 Email-id :- nikitarathod0101@gamail.com
 Year :- 2018-2020
 Submitted to :- Smt.S.B.Gardi Department of
English,Maharaja Krishankumarsihji Bhavanar
University.

2.  Whole story is around him.
 Tom is good heart
And generosity
Make him Fielding’s
Avatar of virtue.
 Tom is handsome
Face and gallantry
Win him the love
And affection of
Women throughout
The countryside.

3.  Tom loves Sophia.
 Tom is hero of the novel.
 Tom is not virtuous man.
 But Sophia is virtuous woman.
 Sophia’s love is true for Tom.
 Tom’s nature is helping.
 Sophia has capacity to judge.
 Sophia is emotional and rational.
 Tom’s faults prevent him from being a
perfect hero.

4.  Tom’s dignified though natural air induces
characters to assume that he is a gentle man
Which ultimately turns out to be true.
 Tom jones is a not like Thor.
 He is friendly , handsome guys who get into
major fights with their father. What is more
they both have sly brothers who lie and
manipulate others, long journey, have a
series of surprising adventures and
eventually redeem themselves in the eyes of
their dad.

5.  Mr Benjamin “Little Benjamin” partridge .
 He is teacher, barber and surgeon.
 The character are of tom and thor are of these
two guys is really startlingly similar their
adventures lead both thor and tom to put aside
their arrogance and their self- indulgence.
 We are not sure Henry Fielding would approve of
this comparison between his novel and a marvel
studios movie, especially given how much he
emphasizes the importance of keeping gods and
mythology out of modern fiction . But we can’t
overlap now that we have noticed it.

6.  He has to go on a quest of self discovery to
figure out what is truly important to him
before he wins the girl and secures his
future.
 It is not that Tom doesn’t deserve some kind
of lesson in better behavior .
 He really does have to figure out the
important of discipline and self – restraint.
But once he has learned these lessons, he
gets to go home again with a new crew of
friends at his back , secure once more in his
own future.

7.  He is well- meaning but he can be carless of
people’s feelings . He never thinks twice
about how thinks twice about how thinks
appear, so he makes himself an excellent
target for mean gossip.
 He has quick temper and he sometimes
drinks too much. Though he is nothing like as
bad as squire western.
 But all of Tom’s faults are also the flip sides
of his best qualities. The other side of Tom is
free and easy sexuality is that hr is kind and
sympathetic to everyone, especially women.

8.  The relationship he falls into with mrs waters
which winds up causing his first major break up
with Sophia , comes about because he rescues
mrs waters from a man who trying to murder
her.
 Even Tom’s reputation for theft, which he builds
up as a child in the early chapters of the desire
to help out George seagrim and his starving
family.
 Squire allworthy also notices this weird quirk of
Tom’s character, that he has plenty of faults but
they get balanced out by his good points.

9.  While squire allworthy was angry therefore
with the incontinence of jones, he was no
less, pleased with the honor and honesty of
his self – accusation.
 He began now to form in his mind the same
opinion of this young fellow, which , we hope
our reader may have conceived. And in
balancing his faults with his perfections. The
latter seemed rather to preponderate.
 And some of his trouble almost losing Sophia
over his affairs.

10.  Fielding points out that there are plenty of
books where you will find heroes who are
100% good but these portrayals are not
exactly true to life. Since fielding is trying to
write a realistic book, it makes sense that he
wants us to like his main character who may
not be all good , but who is good enough to
be a decent guy.
 Tom’s character has given rise to sharp
criticism from many eminent critics including
Dr. Johnson.

11.  Between Tom and Blifil, Fielding creates this
interesting ethical system of positive virtues
,faults that are actually virtues like Tom’s
lack of discipline which equal generosity,
virtues that are actually faults like Mr. Blifil’s
impressive self-control, which equal
stinginess and manipulativeness and out right
faults.
 He begins life as nobody’s child and is
informally adopted by an exemplary Christian
and philanthropist.

12.  Tom is an active treatise on the diverse
quality of soul’s and their different reactions
to experience.
 Tom is virtuously free from hypocrisy. He
wears no mask. What the man of hills has
remarked about his appearance is quite true
of his character.
 Tom has the generosity of heart and courage
to accept the responsibility for his actions.
 Tom does not try to avoid the consequence
of what he has done.

13.  Blifil betrayals ultimately expose the truth and
Black Geroge loses his job as a result. but Tom
stands by the side of the starving family of the
gamekeeper. He sells the horse and the Bible to
keep the family.
 He shows more justice toward the ‘highway man’
who tries to rob him. When he finds that the
main story of a starving wife and children is
true. He immediately gives his all money he has.
 He also argues Mrs. Miller to take entire amount
of fifty pounds which has been given to him by
Mrs.Ballaston for Mr.Anderson’s family.

14.  When they meet in the house of Mrs.Miller,
Anderson recognizes Tom as the man whom
he had tried to rob. But Tom does not put
him to shame and keeps silent about the
incident and puts aside Anderson’s
protestation of gratitude of the fresh gift.
 Tom is not as has been said already, a hero of
stainless character that we often come
across in fiction. In fiction, the hero is
portrayed as a superhuman or an ideal man
free from all the defects that a moral human
being is subject to.

15.  Fielding depicts Tom as a hero processed of a
virtuous heart, but also as possessed of the
lustiness and lack of deliberation.
 Yet he is true hero because he has no scheme
to corrupt or entice any woman.
 What has happened in course of his life is
inevitable and he cannot avoid it.

16. Tom Joens is the hero of the novel
that pictures a living society, not of
a fictional one. So, he satisfies the
condition of an ideal hero who is
alive to all the demands of human
life.