Don Quixote

Joseph Andrews is handles send-off novel. It is a classical example of a literary work which started as a scoff and ended as an superior work of art in its own right. The work Fielding intended to parody was Richardsons first novel Pamela, or deservingness Rewarded which had taken England by storm in the years following 1740 when it was first published. In his novel Fielding intended in the beginning to show how Lady booby (aunt of Lord B. in Richardsons novel) attempts the virginity of Joseph Andrews, described as the virtuous Pamelas brother and in the end discovered to be different.The unscathed intention was humourous. But after Chapter IX Joseph Andrews seems to break away completely from the schoolmaster intention. minister Adams, who has no counterpart in Pamela, runs away with the novel. He is one of the just ab egress living, lovable, comical bundles of wisdom and simplicity in all literature. In the words of Edmund Gosse, diplomatic minister Abraham Adams, alone, would be a contribution to incline letters. He indeed is the hero of the novel, and non Joseph Andrews.Fielding was aware of giving a new literary form with Joseph Andrews which he called a comic epic in prose. Fielding is a great master of the art of characterization withal. Fieldings broad human sympathy coupled with his keen comment of even the faintest element of hypocrisy in a person is his basic addition as a master of characterization. He laughs and makes us laugh at galore(postnominal) of his characters, but he is never misanthropical or misanthropic. He is a agreeable satirist, sans malice, sans harshness.He gives no evidence of world angry at the foibles of his characters or of dimension a lash in readiness. His comic creations resemble those of Chaucer and Shakespeare. Parson Trulliber and Falstaff, if they were to meet, would have right off recognized each other Fielding is one of the greatest climateists in side literature. The same comic musical n ote which permeates his plays is also evident in his novels. As he informs us, the author upon whom he modeled himself was Cervantes it is non surprising, therefore, that comedy should be his method.Fieldings caprice is broad(a) in range. It rises from the coarsest farce to the astonishing senior high school of the subtlest irony. On one side is his around the bend description of various fights and, on the other, the grisly irony of Jonathan Wild. Higher than both is that ineffable, pleasant, and ironical humor that may be embed e realwhere in Tom Jones but is at its best in Joseph Andrews where it plays identical summer lightning around the figure of Parson Adams-an English cousin of Don Quixote.Fieldings very definition of the novel as a comic epic in prose is significative of the place of humor and comedy in his novels and, later, those of many of his followers. It may be pointed out here that Richardson had no sense of humor he was an unsmiling moralist and sentimentalis t. comparison the two, Coleridge says There is a cheerful, sunshiny, breezy spirit that prevails everywhere strongly contrasted with the close, hot, tfay-dreamy continuity of Richardson. Fieldings humor is sometimes of the satiric kind, but he is never harsh or as well cynical.