초록
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Fielding attempts to show the system of human's eclectic psychology by provision of nature in his novel. Most humans have the sources of both good and bad, but one of the two is stronger. As we can see through the extreme characters of Blifil and Tom, some humans possess goodness and others possess badness. The disposition, or the basic temper, in the center of their minds, controls various elements of their minds, or determines the relationships between the two. The arbitrary role between this disposition and impulsive passion is influenced by reason. Sometimes the reason is the basic element of the good disposition, and the disposition is even a mechanism which can lead to passion. Love and vanity are the main passions of
humans, and they are the basic disposition of humans. They are the terms of desires, the special responses against practical phases.
Fielding dramatizes the working of the ruling passions, good and bad, as we can see in the dramatized contrast between Tom and Blifil. Fielding is wholly interested in the external expression of human nature, and he describes them by comparing various types of human nature. The behaviors of humans are determined by one of the leading passions, which are good and bad, in their varied human minds. A man is more or less proud, but if pride is his leading passion, he cannot be a good man.
If he is attracted by the passion of love, he opens the eyes for merciful behaviour.
The interaction of these elements composes Fielding's psychological system, and shows that he is devoted to the portrayal of good nature through the contrasting duality of human nature.