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    This document contains 14 discussion questions about Henry Fielding's novel Joseph Andrews. The questions cover a range of topics including: the influences on Fielding in writing the novel; the purpose of the preface and how well Fielding achieved his aims; Fielding's use of dramatic scenes and effects from his experience as a playwright; the function of digressions in the novel; the degree of unity or "Harmotton" achieved; Fielding's presentation and characterization of characters as representing "manners" or "species" rather than individuals; comparisons of the hypocrisy between characters like Lady Booby and Mrs. Slipslop; the implications of Fielding's view of the character of Parson Adams as "the most

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    This document contains 14 discussion questions about Henry Fielding's novel Joseph Andrews. The questions cover a range of topics including: the influences on Fielding in writing the novel; the purpose of the preface and how well Fielding achieved his aims; Fielding's use of dramatic scenes and effects from his experience as a playwright; the function of digressions in the novel; the degree of unity or "Harmotton" achieved; Fielding's presentation and characterization of characters as representing "manners" or "species" rather than individuals; comparisons of the hypocrisy between characters like Lady Booby and Mrs. Slipslop; the implications of Fielding's view of the character of Parson Adams as "the most

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    Questions On Joseph Andrews

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    This document contains 14 discussion questions about Henry Fielding's novel Joseph Andrews. The questions cover a range of topics including: the influences on Fielding in writing the novel; the purpose of the preface and how well Fielding achieved his aims; Fielding's use of dramatic scenes and effects from his experience as a playwright; the function of digressions in the novel; the degree of unity or "Harmotton" achieved; Fielding's presentation and characterization of characters as representing "manners" or "species" rather than individuals; comparisons of the hypocrisy between characters like Lady Booby and Mrs. Slipslop; the implications of Fielding's view of the character of Parson Adams as "the most

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    1. What factors influenced Fielding in his conception and composition of Joseph Andrews?

    2. What is the purpose of the Author's Preface, and how well did Fielding accomplish his aims in the light of the guidelines established there?

    3. Examine one or two incidents or scenes which you think were influenced in their creation by Fielding's experience as a playwright; what is "dramatic" about the scenes you have chosen, and is there a place for this kind of effect in the novel? 4. Discuss the function of the "digressions" in Joseph Andrews.

    5. Discuss the degree of unity or to use Fielding's terms "Harmotton, that agreement of his action to his subject" (Book III, Chapter 2) achieved in Joseph Andrews.

    6. "I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species" (Book III, Chapter 1). Discuss Fielding's presentation of two or three characters in the light of the above comment.

    7. Compare the hypocrisy of Lady Booby with that of Mrs. Slipslop.

    8. Do you agree with Fielding that the character of Adams "is the most glaring in the whole"? Give your reasons and discuss the implications.

    9. Compare and contrast the attitudes of two or three characters toward "charity." 10.12. "I defy the wisest man in the world to turn a true good action into ridicule" (Book III, Chapter 6). To what extent is this statement the fulcrum of Joseph Andrews?

    11.13. Cite some examples of Fielding's use of the burlesque and discuss the use of this kind of humor in Joseph Andrews. 12.14. What does Fielding mean when he speaks of the "ridiculous"? Give an example of the "ridiculous" and discuss Fielding's treatment of it. 13.15. Discuss Fielding's presentation of clergymen; what do you believe to be his conception of the truly worthy man of religion?

    14.16. What kind of picture does Fielding paint of "law and justice" in eighteenth-century England?

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