Tom Jones - Henry Fielding.
Plot Overview-
Two brothers, Dr Blifil and
Captain Blifil, regularly visit the Allworthy estate. The doctor introduces the
captain to Bridget in hopes of marrying into Allworthy's wealth. The couple
soon marry. After the marriage, Captain Blifil begins to show a coldness to his
brother, who eventually feels obliged to leave the house for London where he soon
dies "of a broken heart". Captain Blifil and his wife start to grow
cool towards one another, and the former is found dead
from apoplexy one evening after taking his customary evening stroll
prior to dinner. By then he has fathered a boy, who grows up with the bastard
Tom.
Tom
grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. His first
love is Molly, gamekeeper Black George's second daughter and a local beauty.
She throws herself at Tom; he gets her pregnant and then feels obliged to offer
her his protection. After some time, however, Tom finds out that Molly is
somewhat promiscuous. He then falls in love with a neighbouring squire's lovely
daughter, Sophia Western. Tom's status as a bastard causes Sophia's father and
Allworthy to oppose their love; this criticism of class friction in society
acted as a biting social commentary. The inclusion of prostitution and
sexual promiscuity in the plot was also original for its time, and the
foundation for criticism of the book's "lowness".
Sophia's
father, Squire Western, is intent on making Sophia marry the hypocritical
Master Blifil, but she refuses, and tries to escape from her father's
influence. Tom, on the other hand, is expelled from Allworthy's estate for his
many misdemeanours, and starts his adventures across Britain, eventually ending
up in London. Amongst other things, he joins the army for a brief
duration, finds a servant in a barber-surgeon named Partridge , beds two older
women (Mrs Waters and Lady Bellaston), and very nearly kills a man in a duel,
for which he is arrested.
Eventually
the secret of Tom's birth is revealed, after a short scare that Mrs Waters (who
is really Jenny Jones) is his birth mother, and that he has
committed Inceset. Tom's real mother is Bridget, who conceived him after
an affair with a schoolmaster hence he is the true nephew of Squire Allworthy
himself. After finding out about Tom's half-brother Master Blifil's intrigues,
Allworthy decides to bestow the majority of his inheritance to Tom. Tom and Sophia
Western marry, after this revelation of his true parentage, as Squire Western
no longer harbours any misgivings over Tom marrying his daughter. Sophia bears
Tom a son and a daughter, and the couple live on happily with the blessings of
Squire Western and Squire Allworthy.
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