Henry_Fielding(1707~1754).pptVIP

Henry Fielding British novelist dramatist writer playwright and journalist founder of the English Realistic school in literature with Samuel Richardson Do you know who the person is ? Henry Fielding(1707~1754) From 1742 onward, Fielding wrote four novels, for which he has been remembered. His first novel “Joseph Andrews” was published in 1742. His “Jonathan Wild” appeared in 1743. In 1749, he finished his greatest novel “Tom Jones”. “Amelia”(1751)was his last novel. Joseph, a handsome young man,is a man-servant of Mr.B.’s widowed aunt, Lady Booby. Lady Booby, attracted by Joseph’s manly charms, pursues him with the same obstinacy as her nephew pursued Pamela with. Joseph, who is a good youth, repels her advances. But he , unlike his sister Pamela, does not at last have his “virtue rewarded” with his mistress’s hand. He is turned out unceremoniously out of doors by his mistress. 全书可分为三部分： 第一部分发生在英国南部默塞特郡的乡村，在乡绅甄可敬的家里;第二部分叙述在去伦敦途中所发生的许多事情；第三部分发生在伦敦。 菲尔丁以现实的社会生活作为浪漫主义的故事情节的背景，使读者了解到18世纪中叶英国城乡生活中许多细节,他描绘的场面如万花筒一般,情节曲折复杂，人物丰富多彩。他喜用对比手法来描写同一类型的人物。 Amelia was Fielding’s last novel. It is inferior to “Tom Jones”, But has merits of its own. A good deal of the novel is devoted to exposing various social evils of the time. In some parts it shows Fielding as a mellower writer than the author of “Tom Jones”. After Amelia , Fielding wrote, “I will trouble the world no more with any children of mine by the same Muse.” 主要内容:美貌少女阿米莉亚与少尉布思相爱并定下婚事，其母嫌贫爱富，欲赖婚逼嫁富家子，阿米莉亚宁可出走也不屈从。后在牧师帮助下，两人终于成婚。布思爱伤回乡，生活拮据，又好赌欠债累累。此时，一批富家子和道貌岸然的贵族，贪图阿米莉亚的美貌，使尽威逼利诱各种手段，企图霸占她；而布思的朋友，竟也从中充当帮凶，为此展开了一系列矛盾冲突。夫妻俩最终苦尽甘来，迎来了幸福的家庭生活。 《阿米丽亚》是一部坦白、诚恳的社会批判小说，向读者揭示了当时英国上层社会中形形色色的丑恶现象。对英国社会的黑暗和不合理现象的批判和提出的改革要求，为19世纪英国批判现实的小说奠定基础。 “Greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief to mankind”; Greatness consists in power, pride, insolence, and doing mischief to mankind.”