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【正文】 e challenged especially in the modern society. From the digression in“Tom Jones”,in the form of jocular conversation with the reader, we can know Fielding’s philosophy of art. “Nature herself”, that is, the exact observation and study of real life, was the basis of Fielding’s work. He would not, like the romancewriters’,rely simply on his imagination for the creation of his characters. Nor would he content himself merely with imitating the figures depicted in the works of earlier authors. “Imitation here”,he once wrote,“will not do the business. The picture must be after “Nature herself”. By“Nature”he meant the close and constant study of men and women in life. The centre of Fielding’s writing philosophy was Man,mon earthly Man with his earthly interests, needs and passions, which would be studied and portrayed in action,in clashes, and in development. According to Fielding, the appropriate subject of the novel is human nature .Human nature is what Fielding claims to reproduce in the characters of his novels. It is his endeavor to picture this human nature faithfully and accurately as he sees it He will not embellish or idealize. But in the delineation of his characters Fielding does not simply produce a series of literally exact portraits of the people he observes around him. Fielding holds the view that a truthful artist’s duty was to reproduce human nature faithfully and accurately as he saw ,he drew his characters,not from his imagination,nor from models in literature,but from the living human nature which he observed in the people around resu
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