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2) It also examines Fielding's views on the contrast between town and country life, with the country promoting basic values. Additionally, it analyzes Fielding's satirization of affectation, vanity, and hypocrisy as well as his positive view of chastity within marriage.
3) Finally, the document discusses Fielding's take on class and birth, seeing them as prone to vices like corruption but also sometimes aligned with moral worth. Fielding accepted
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This presentation is a part of my academic presentation of The Renaissance literature Semester 1 of Department English MA English, MKBU and it is submitted to Prof. Dr. Dilip Barad Sir.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his life and works
Prepared by Ahmad Hussain, Department of English,
Abdul Wali khan University Mardan.
Email: mr.literature123@gmail.com
Facebook page link for Literary students: www.facebook.com/englitpearls
The Rape of the Lock was written by Pope to chide gently the Fermor family when Lord Petre cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor’s hair on a certain fateful day and such dire consequences followed. Pope started something that culminated into a piece of literature that has remained to this day a leading example of the mock epic satire.
This presentation is a part of my academic presentation of The Renaissance literature Semester 1 of Department English MA English, MKBU and it is submitted to Prof. Dr. Dilip Barad Sir.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, his life and works
Prepared by Ahmad Hussain, Department of English,
Abdul Wali khan University Mardan.
Email: mr.literature123@gmail.com
Facebook page link for Literary students: www.facebook.com/englitpearls
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Literary Criticism - Essay on Dramatic PoesyRohitVyas25
John Dryden has given good criticism for dramatic poesy. Here in this presentation, I've put introduction of the original essay and Dryden's definition of play.
Willing suspension of disbelief by samuel taylor coleridgeDayamani Surya
Willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It would mean suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of judgement.
Samuel Coleridge- Biographia Literaria Ch 14Dilip Barad
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Synopsis & Critical Study of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Armsjitugohil
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Fielding: Tom Jones - Power Point PresentationShineLifeHeart
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Elizabeth Benet is the second daughter of Benet Family. She is the most quick-witted and intelligent. She is the protagonist of Pride and Prejudice and one of the characters in literature that is well known. She has admirable qualities; she is lovely in that in the novel she converses brilliantly in the dialog. The qualities are uniquely American and possess American spirit. In addition, she is lively, honest, and has the virtue that enables her to rise above the nonsense and the bad behavior coupling her class bound and the spiteful society. However, her sharp tongue and the prerequisite to make a hasty judgment often lead her astray. The pride and prejudice are apparently how she and her true love Darcy overcome the obstacles that are inclusive of personal failings in a bid to find romantic happiness. This essay aims to explore her character traits which further present the American spirit in her (Austen 15).
She not only have to cope with a hopeless mother badly behaved siblings, distant father, antagonizing females, and several snobbish, she must overcome the mistaken impression of Darcy that leads her to reject the proposal for marriage initially. She has sufficient charms to keep Darcy interested while she navigates the social and familial turmoil. She then realizes the error of the initial prejudice that she had for Darcy; she recognizes the nobility of Darcy character. She is compelling in large part since she has the modern sensibility of Austen Heroin. In addition, she uniquely identifies with the American character that is highly relatable for most women reading pride and prejudice in America today (Austen 17).
An interesting character she is as she presents romance. Her fierce determination, to marry for love, collides with her fierce loyalty to the family the moment Collins proposed to her. She could have ensured that her family is never turned out of a long burn by marrying him. Nevertheless, she never hesitates. In fact, she does not love him or like him. Apparently she has to respect much in that she cannot accept him as her friend does less than a day later. She is firm in her principles, and she figures out eventually that she had misjudged Darcy and that the fact remains that she loves him. She then marries for love having chosen a man so wealthy that her family will often provide for (Austen 19).
Though Elizabeth is caught up in societal structures that force her way in the world, she does on her terms. Even though she marries a very wealthy man, one cannot accuse her of avarice or excessive practicality since if she were marrying for money; she would have accepted him the first time. Elizabeth is a compelling character: she is witty and clever and has a strong sense of wrong and right. She shines like a.
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1. Major Themes-JOSEPH ANDREWS
The Vulnerability and Power of Goodness
Goodness was a preoccupation of the littérateurs of the eighteenth century no less than of
the moralists. In an age in which worldly authority was largely unaccountable and tended
to be corrupt, Fielding seems to have judged that temporal power was not compatible with
goodness. In his novels, most of the squires, magistrates, fashionable persons, and petty
capitalists are either morally ambiguous or actively predatory; by contrast, his paragon of
benevolence, Parson Adams, is quite poor and utterly dependent for his income on the
patronage of squires. As a corollary of this antithesis, Fielding shows that Adams's extreme
goodness, one ingredient of which is ingenuous expectation of goodness in others, makes
him vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous worldlings. Much as the novelist seems to
enjoy humiliating his clergyman, however, Adams remains a transcendently vital presence
whose temporal weakness does not invalidate his moral power. If his naïve good nature is
no antidote to the evils of hypocrisy and unprincipled self-interest, that is precisely because
those evils are so pervasive; the impracticality of his laudable principles is a judgment not
on Adams nor on goodness per se but on the world.
Charity and Religion
Fielding’s novels are full of clergymen, many of whom are less than exemplary; in the
contrast between the benevolent Adams and his more self-interested brethren, Fielding
draws the distinction between the mere formal profession of Christian doctrines and that
active charity which he considers true Christianity. Fielding advocated the expression of
religious duty in everyday human interactions: universal, disinterested compassion arises
from the social affections and manifests itself in general kindness to other people, relieving
the afflictions and advancing the welfare of mankind. One might say that Fielding’s religion
focuses on morality and ethics rather than on theology or forms of worship; as Adams says
to the greedy and uncharitable Parson Trulliber, “Whoever therefore is void of Charity, I
make no scruple of pronouncing that he is no Christian.”
Providence
If Fielding is skeptical about the efficacy of human goodness in the corrupt world, he is
nevertheless determined that it should always be recompensed; thus, when the "good"
characters of Adams, Joseph, and Fanny are helpless to engineer their own happiness,
Fielding takes care to engineer it for them. The role of the novelist thus becomes analogous
to that of God in the real world: he is a providential planner, vigilantly rewarding virtue and
punishing vice, and Fielding's overtly stylized plots and characterizations work to call
attention to his designing hand. The parallel between plot and providence does not imply,
however, that Fielding naïvely expects that good will always triumph over evil in real life;
rather, as Judith Hawley argues, "it implies that life is a work of art, a work of conscious
design created by a combination of Providential authorship and individual free will."
Fielding's authorly concern for his characters, then, is not meant to encourage his readers
in their everyday lives to wait on the favor of a divine author; it should rather encourage
them to make an art out of the business of living by advancing and perfecting the work of
providence, that is, by living according to the true Christian principles of active
benevolence.
Town and Country
Fielding did not choose the direction and destination of his hero’s travels at random; Joseph
moves from the town to the country in order to illustrate, in the words of Martin C.
Battestin, “a moral pilgrimage from the vanity and corruption of the Great City to the
relative naturalness and simplicity of the country.” Like Mr. Wilson (albeit without having
sunk nearly so low), Joseph develops morally by leaving the city, site of vanity and
2. superficial pleasures, for the country, site of virtuous retirement and contented domesticity.
Not that Fielding had any utopian illusions about the countryside; the many vicious
characters whom Joseph and Adams meet on the road home attest that Fielding believed
human nature to be basically consistent across geographic distinctions. His claim for rural
life derives from the pragmatic judgment that, away from the bustle, crime, and financial
pressures of the city, those who are so inclined may, as Battestin puts it, “attend to the
basic values of life.”
Affectation, Vanity, and Hypocrisy
Fielding’s Preface declares that the target of his satire is the ridiculous, that “the only
Source of the true Ridiculous” is affectation, and that “Affectation proceeds from one of
these two Causes, Vanity, or Hypocrisy.” Hypocrisy, being the dissimulation of true motives,
is the more dangerous of these causes: whereas the vain man merely considers himself
better than he is, the hypocrite pretends to be other than he is. Thus, Mr. Adams is vain
about his learning, his sermons, and his pedagogy, but while this vanity may occasionally
make him ridiculous, it remains entirely or virtually harmless. By contrast, Lady Booby and
Mrs. Slipslop counterfeit virtue in order to prey on Joseph, Parson Trulliber counterfeits
moral authority in order to keep his parish in awe, Peter Pounce counterfeits contented
poverty in order to exploit the financial vulnerabilities of other servants, and so on. Fielding
chose to combat these two forms of affectation, the harmless and the less harmless, by
poking fun at them, on the theory that humor is more likely than invective to encourage
people to remedy their flaws.
Chastity
As his broad hints about Joseph and Fanny’s euphoric wedding night suggest, Fielding has a
fundamentally positive attitude toward sex; he does prefer, however, that people’s sexual
conduct be in accordance with what they owe to God, each other, and themselves. In the
mutual attraction of Joseph and Fanny there is nothing licentious or exploitative, and they
demonstrate the virtuousness of their love in their eagerness to undertake a lifetime
commitment and in their compliance with the Anglican forms regulating marriage, which
require them to delay the event to which they have been looking forward for years. If
Fielding approves of Joseph and Fanny, though, he does not take them too seriously; in
particular, Joseph’s “male-chastity” is somewhat incongruous given the sexual doublestandard, and Fielding is not above playing it for laughs, particularly while the hero is in
London. Even militant chastity is vastly preferable, however, to the loveless and predatory
sexuality of Lady Booby and those like her: as Martin C. Battestin argues, “Joseph’s chastity
is amusing because extreme; but it functions nonetheless as a wholesome antithesis to the
fashionable lusts and intrigues of high society.”
Class and Birth
Joseph Andrews is full of class distinctions and concerns about high and low birth, but
Fielding is probably less interested in class difference per se than in the vices it can
engender, such as corruption and affectation. Naturally, he disapproves of those who pride
themselves on their class status to the point of deriding or exploiting those of lower birth:
Mrs. Grave-airs, who turns her nose up at Joseph, and Beau Didapper, who believes he has
a social prerogative to prey on Fanny sexually, are good examples of these vices. Fielding
did not consider class privileges to be evil in themselves; rather, he seems to have believed
that some people deserve social ascendancy while others do not. This view of class
difference is evident in his use of the romance convention whereby the plot turns on the
revelation of the hero’s true birth and ancestry, which is more prestigious than everyone
had thought. Fielding, then, is conservative in the sense that he aligns high class status
with moral worth; this move amounts not so much to an endorsement of the class system
as to a taking it for granted, an acceptance of class terms for the expression of human
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