“WOMAN CHARACTERs IN TOM

JONES BY HENRY FIELDING “

NAME : DODIYA MEGHANA JITENDRA KUMARSemester : 1ROLL NO. : 13Course : The neo-classical literature Email id. : mdodiya26@gmail.comSubmitted to: Dept. of English M.K.Bhavnagar university

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Henry fielding He was Born April

22,1707. He was a 18th

century English writer, he was also English author.

His fiction ,plays, essays, and legal pamphlets show he was a human and witty man, with a passion for reform and justice.

DEFINATION OF FEMINISM

Feminism is a range of movements and ideologies that share a comman goal;to define,establish,and achieve equal political,and social rights for women.

INTRODUCTION

There are many major and minor characters in henry fielding’s ‘Tom Jones’.

Though we can say,that all the characters are minor,as importance is not given to the women.From a feminist side,we can see that women characters are sided in the novel.

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LIST OF WOMEN CHARACTER

Mrs.Miller

Nancy Miller

Mrs.Honour

Servant Susan

Mrs.Whitefield

Ms.BridgetJenny Jones

Lady Bellaston

Mrs.Western

Harriet Fitzpatrick

Molly Seagrim

Arebella

The Landlady

Ms. Abigail

Sophia Western

Mrs.Wilkins

Mrs.Doborah

Mrs.seagrim

Betty

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Sophia WesternSophia Western

Beautiful generous heroine.

Daughter of squire western.

She is a ”gentlewoman.”

Sophia manages to reconcile her love for tom.

Her filial duty to her father.

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Jenny Jones A bright young woman, jenny is “as good a scholar as most of the young men of quality of the age’.

jenny jones is initially believed to be tom Jones mother.

She is in an the employ of the partridges and is dismissed by the Jealous mrs.patridge.

squire Allworthy provides for her in another parish in a bid for her to wanton ways.

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Daughter of Black George, Molly is the first girl to whom Tom is attracted.

She is a beautiful and passionate girl who has little modesty or virtue.

Molly seagrim

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Bridget Allworthy is the mother of Tom and Blifil.

An unattractive lady who resent captain Blifil because he flatters her religions views.

Bridget AllworthyBridget Allworthy

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Harriet Fitzpatrick Harriet

Fitzpatrick is Sophia's cousin and wife of Mr. Fitzpatrick.

Pretty and charming, she is nevertheless selfish and contrives against Sophia in order to improve her relationship with squire western

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