The Qualities of Novel and Romance in Henry Fielding`s Joseph Andrews
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The spirit and technique of realism had been inevitable elements in shaping novel`s content and form in the eighteenth century. In Joseph Andrews, Fielding shows man`s realistic life on the basis of the satire and comedy of humanity within a society. However, Joseph Andrews is primarily a comic romance, which is not far from his definition, "comic epic-poem in prose" (7). Although it contains comparatively brilliant qualities of realism, there are also Fielding`s limits as one of the earliest eighteenth-century novelists. Especially in characterization and structure, this work maintains the remnants of romance but simultaneously suggests the possibility for the novel in the modern sense as a work in the transitional stage from romance to novel.
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Fielding divides his characters into good and evil, and they never go through changes in their personalities for all that their actions and lives are described in a very realistic way. It is the tradition of romance. Romance always achieves the victory of goodness mainly through character`s action in fantastic and unrealistic adventures. In comparison with it, modern novel is more concerned with man`s internal experience and change in the realistic human conditions. Joseph Andrews is "outwardly a pretty fellow, his morals remained entirely uncorrupted, though he was at the same time smarter and genteeler than any of the beaus in town" (20). This man of goodness by birth undergoes test through Lady Booby`s seduction and many troubles in journey into country, but he shows no vision or insight of life probably to be gained through journey. He remains just a flat character in comic romance.
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