The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling 读后感

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Book Report of <The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling>
1. Brief introduction of the writer
  The author Henry Fielding was not only a novelist but also a magistrate, playwright and editor. He was born of a distinguished family, he was educated at Eton and studied law at Leiden. Settling in London in 1729, he began writing comedies, farces, and burlesques, the most notable being<Tom Thumb> (1730), and two satires, <Pasquin憎恨> (1736) and <The Historical Register for 1736> (1737), which attacked the Walpole government and provoked the Licensing Act of 1737. This act, tting up a censorship of the stage, ended Fielding's dramatic career and turned him to the less inhibited form of the novel.
In that genre he achieved his greatest success, beginning with his first novel, <Joph Andrews> (1742), which started simply as a burlesque of Samuel Richardson's ntimental novel <Pamela>孕妇禁用 but developed into a great comic creation. He followed with <Jonathan Wild> (1743), the history of a superman of crime, which has been called the most sustained piece of irony in English. His masterpiece is <Tom Jones> (1749), a novel recounting the wi
ld comic adventures of the good-hearted though highly fallible foundling, Tom Jones.
Fielding was also skillful at law. He had begun his rious study of law in 1737 and in 1740 was called to the bar. After spending veral years as a political journalist, he was appointed justice of the peace for Westminster in 1748 and for Middlex in 1749. A fearless and honest magistrate, he worked arduously in the administration of justice and the prevention of crime. Broken in health, he resigned his office in 1753 and the following year sailed for Portugal, where he died.
2. The plot of the novel
膜结构屋面<The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling> is regarded as Fielding’s masterpiece, with the fame of being the best constructed novel in English literature. <The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling>, often known simply as <Tom Jones>发型图片女中长发, is a comic novel by Henry Fielding. First published on February 28, 1749, <Tom Jones> is arguably one of the first pro works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books with 6 in each.
Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy, in Somert in England’s West Country. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbor's daughter, Sophia Western. On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre popular in 18th-century Britain. However, Tom's status as a bastard caus Sophia's father and Allworthy to oppo their love; this criticism of class friction in society acted as a biting social commentary. The inclusion of prostitution and xual promiscuity in the plot was also original for its time, and also acted as the foundation for criticism of the book's "lowness".
At the beginning, Fielding described Mr. Allworthy’s country life. He was a wealthy squire who lived in the countryside. He was so kind and lived with his sister. Once he went to London on business for almost 3 months, after he was back, he found a foundling on his bed. Mr. Allworthy was so kind that he decided to adopt that poor infant. On the other hand, Mr. Allworthy’s sister left a son named Blifil, and he also adopted Blifil as his son. 
土字五行属什么Tom grown into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted youth. He developed affection for his neighbor’s daughter, Sophia Western. Finally he got Sophia’s love. On the contrary, Blifil was vile, but he coated his evil with sugary hypocrisy. He also wanted to marry Sophia, not for love but for her father’s property. He tried everything to slander Jones before Mr. Allworthy. Finally Jones was driven out by Mr. Allworthy. Sophia’s father and Allworthy oppod her love with Jones, becau Jones was a bastard. What’s more, her father forced her to marry Blifil but she refud and fled to London to find Jones.
After being driven out, Jones intended to go to a, but he lost his way and went to London. The whole cond part was describing the various experiences that Jones and Sophia experienced on their way. At many times they almost met each other, but misd. It’s the most interesting part of the whole novel. There is description about different class in the society at that time, expressing sympathy for unfortunate person.
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Jones met Sophia’s cousin Bellaston in London. Mrs. Bellaston crashed at Jones and dallied with him. Jones was tempted by Mrs. Bellaston and had affair with her. When Bell
试用期有年假吗aston knew Jones was in love with Sophia, she tried hard to prevent them from meeting, becau she wanted to keep Jones as her private lover. Also, she devid to make Sophia marry Philade and instigated him to rape Sophia. Fortunately, at that time Sophia’s father right arrived and saved her. Since her father insisted her to marry Blifil, he arrested her in the hou.
One day, Jones met his foe and injured him during fighting. He was put into prison for that. When Blifil knew that, he bought the lawyer to make perjury in order to frame Jones as murdering. Becau the person who was beaten by Jones was recovered soon, Jones was t free from prison. And finally Mr. Allworthy knew that Jones was snared by Blifil and in fact Jones was his sister’s bastard. All the things were come out into wash and Jones the heir of Mr. Allworthy and married Sophia.
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