Don Quixote

Joseph Andrews is palms scratch line raw. It is a classical example of a literary live on which st ruseed as a travesty and oddmented as an excellent calculate of art in its own right. The work palm intended to parody was Richardsons first novel Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded which had interpreted England by storm in the geezerhood following 1740 when it was first published. In his novel Fielding intended in the outgrowth to show how Lady Booby (aunt of noble B. in Richardsons novel) attempts the virginity of Joseph Andrews, described as the gross(a) Pamelas brother simply in the end discovered to be different.The whole heading was suspicious. But after Chapter IX Joseph Andrews seems to swing extraneous completely from the original intention. rector Adams, who has no counterpart in Pamela, runs away with the novel. He is unity of the most living, lovable, crotchety bundles of wisdom and simplicity in every literature. In the words of Edmund Gosse, Parson Abraham A dams, alone, would be a contribution to English letters. He indeed is the hero of the novel, and not Joseph Andrews.Fielding was aware of giving a newfound literary form with Joseph Andrews which he called a comic epic in prose. Fielding is a great master of the art of characterization also. Fieldings broad human bounty coupled with his keen observation of flat the faintest element of hypocrisy in a person is his basic asset as a master of characterization. He laughs and makes us laugh at many another(prenominal) of his characters, but he is never cynical or misanthropic. He is a pleasant satirist, sans malice, sans harshness.He gives no evidence of being livid at the foibles of his characters or of holding a lash in readiness. His comic creations match those of Chaucer and Shakespeare. Parson Trulliber and Falstaff, if they were to meet, would have immediately recognize each other Fielding is one of the greatest piqueists in English literature. The resembling comic spir it which permeates his plays is also patent in his novels. As he informs us, the condition upon whom he modeled himself was Cervantes it is not surprising, thitherfore, that harlequinade should be his method.Fieldings humor is wide in range. It rises from the coarsest farce to the astonishing heights of the subtlest banter. On one side is his zestful commentary of various fights and, on the other, the grim irony of Jonathan Wild. Higher than both is that ineffable, pleasant, and ironic humor that may be found all over in Tom Jones but is at its best in Joseph Andrews where it plays like spend lightning around the figure of Parson Adams-an English cousin of Don Quixote.Fieldings very comment of the novel as a comic epic in prose is indicative of the localize 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 sentimentalist. Comparing the two, Coleridge says in that respect is a cheerful, sunshiny, breezy spirit that prevails all over 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 excessively cynical.