Sunday, July 7, 2019

Relationship (Jenny Jones and tom Jones) and Setting- London, Upton hotel, Lady Bellastons house.


  • Relationship between Jenny Jones and tom Jones.
Jenny Jones (Mrs. Waters) is the student of Partridge whom Allworthy banishes for being Tom's mother—at the end of the novel we learn that Jenny is not Tom's mother. Jenny reappears as "Mrs. Waters" at Upton, where Tom saves her from a robbery.
   Because of the raunchiness of the narrator's description—and because Tom and Mrs. Waters quickly fall into bed together—we initially think that the sole reason this character makes it into the novel is for a bit of light-hearted, sexy comic relief. The narrator makes a joke out of her seduction of Tom, comparing it to siege warfare in Book 9, Chapter 5. And once Sophia finds out that Tom has been sleeping with Mrs. Waters, her character appears to be a funny way for the narrator to drive Tom and Sophia apart once again, therefore delaying the plot resolution even further.
 We're glad to hear that Jenny's future is pretty secure by the end of Tom Jones. But we feel kind of sad that there seems to be nothing for her to do with her education, as a working-class woman in this particular time and place. There are no teaching positions or university jobs for lower-class women in Jenny Jones's position.
Least part of Jenny's problem in settling down and making a life for herself is that there isn't much of a market for her set of skills. She doesn't fit in comfortably in the social world that Fielding portrays in Tom Jones. Unlike Tom, who can move past his status as an illegitimate child, Jenny's gender seems to be an obstacle to her livelihood that she can't overcome.

* Setting- London, Upton hotel, Lady Bellastons house. 
Answer:  Henry Fielding presented the novel in three main sections with action taking place in the first half of the eighteenth century.
            The first section centers on life in the country at the estates of Squire Allworthy and Squire Western in Somersetshire (Somerset County) in southwestern England. In this section, the protagonist, Tom Jones, grows from infant foundling into a teenager who falls in love with the beautiful daughter of Squire Western.
            The second part of the novel takes place along roads, at inns, and in other locales between Somersetshire and London in the middle and late 1740s, when the Jacobite rebellion was under way and English soldiers were bracing for battles with their enemies (Jacobites), who were seeking to restore the House of Stuart to the English throne. In this section, the protagonist experiences many episodic adventures involving a diverse cast of characters that include a woman in distress, soldiers on the march, gypsies, untrustworthy lawyers, puppeteers, women admirers of the title character, and an impoverished robber. 
     The action in the third part takes place mainly in London, where the title character searches for his beloved, fights a duel, has encounters with a possessive seductress, goes to jail, gains his freedom, and reunites with his beloved. This section ends when the principal characters return to Somersetshire.

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