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【導讀】TheHistoryofTomJones,aFoundling HenryFieldingisafamousnovelistanddramatistinthe18thcentury.HismasterpieceTheHistory ofTomJones,afoundlingsetagoodexampletolaterwritersinthethematicpresentation,character portrayal,plotconstructionandwritingstyleandisconsideredbymanycriticstobethemodelofmodern realisticnovels,andHenryFieldinghasbeenthereforecalledthefatherofrealisticnovels. Thenovelhaseighteenbo
【正文】 vels. 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 result was an assemblage of living characters in his novels. Based on a deep understanding of human psychology and sound criticism of social evils,“Tom Jones”gives us a truthful and prehensive description of human nature. In the struggle between kindness and evil, honesty and hypocrisy, the former always triumphs over the latter, which has proved the educational function of Fielding’s novel Henry Fielding39。s Tom Jones is both one of the great ic masterpieces of English literature and a major force in the development of the novel form. Tom Jones gives a prehensive ,allembracing picture of the life of 18th century England, bined with understanding of human psychology and criticism of social evils, together with fullblooded characters, realistically depicted in brilliant, witty and highly artistic language. Let’s remember the words engraved on his tombstone.“ No one is better than him at revealing the human secret。 he lives for others, not for himself.” This is the best appraisal of Fielding’s writing and life.
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