ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Fielding combines a positive assertion of the strength of goodness and benevolence (demonstrated by the structure and plot of the novels) with the sharp thrusts of the satirist’s attack upon the hypocrisy and vanity of individual characters.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sir Walter Scott called Fielding, in a famous phrase, “the Father of English Novel.” He said that Fielding had “high notions of the dignity of art which he may be considered as having founded."

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Fielding the only source of the true Ridiculous is affectation, which proceeds from vanity or hypocrisy, chiefly from the latter. Affectation turns the misfortunes and calamities of life, or the imperfection of nature, into objects of ridicule.

Detailed explanation-4: -The English author and magistrate Henry Fielding (1707-1754) was one of the great novelists of the 18th century. His fiction, plays, essays, and legal pamphlets show he was a humane and witty man, with a passion for reform and justice.