Tom, heartbroken, sets out with Partridge to find pleasure sex Sophia.
NOTE: METAPHOR OF HUNTING When Squire Western calls Tom the
dog fox and Sophia the bitch, he's using a metaphor pleasure sex that
compares life pleasure sex and love to a hunt. Fielding has used this
metaphor before (pleasure sex Sophia and Tom's hunting experience in
Book IV)
but it takes on new importance in Book X and the rest of the
pleasure sex road section of Tom Jones, which is a series of chases and
flights. Squire Western chases Sophia, Sophia chases Tom,
Northerton flees the soldiers, Fitzpatrick chases his wife, and
later pleasure sex Allworthy pleasure sex and Blifil pursue the rest to London.
Fielding uses pleasure sex the hunting metaphor to show people fleeing
their enemies, pursuing their desires, and being
carried off by
their passions like fox hunters riding runaway horses. Pursuit
can be as subtle as Mrs. Waters' seduction of Tom, or as
blatant as Squire Western's hunt for pleasure sex Sophia. The prey can also
be the hunter, as with Sophia, who's pleasure sex fleeing pleasure sex her father and
pursuing Tom, or with Mrs. Waters, who's saved from a predator
(Northerton) but pursues her rescuer (Tom). The hunt can
suddenly reverse: at Upton Inn, the mid-point of the novel,
Sophia's pursuit of Tom shifts to Tom's pursuit of Sophia. A
hunter like Western pursues pleasure sex one prey (pleasure sex Sophia) only to pleasure sex be
distracted by another (Tom). The hunt thus becomes a metaphor
for human relationships.
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TOM JONES: BOOK XI
Fielding continues to lash out at
critics. He devotes the
rest of the book to Sophia and Mrs. Fitzpatrick, and their
journey to London.
NOTE: THE ROADS Sophia falls on the road, because "the lane
they were then passing was narrow and very much over-grown with
trees." pleasure sex You'll notice that Tom, Sophia, and others seem to lose
their way pleasure sex frequently, as pleasure sex well. English roads were terrible in
pleasure sex Fielding's day, despite Turnpike Acts intended to improve them.
In pleasure sex Book XVI, Mrs. Western remarks, "I think the roads, since so
many pleasure sex turnpike acts, are grown