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【正文】 role. Fielding’s male Chauvinism embodied in this novel will be explored by analyzing male’s expanding of selfconsciousness, and other women characters. For example, Sophia is aremarkable character representing the young women of the day who had sufficient courage and independence to defy the corrupted values of that time. She is a rare creation of a young woman of a good family, with sufficient courage and independence to struggle for her heart’s desire. Sophia is a real courageous and antitraditional woman character. But she is not a very successful woman character since she fails to be an autonomous individual and has to make promises with the patriarchal world created by Fielding. She has to make promises with such a society since she has no power to counter against it. It is impossible for her, a dependent to the male authority, to be an autonomous individual and assert her own rights. So the ideal image of Sophia is only a sham, she is just one of the many“ ideal” products of the patriarchal ideology. Underlying Sophia’s promises were Fielding’s male Chauvinism. In Tom Jones, Fielding created a totally patriarchal and hierarchical world. Although Fielding successfully exposed the hypocrisy andextolled“good nature”in this novel, his treatment of the gender role and male Chauvinism need to be 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
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