The squire Orhuasui from Somerset is a loyal old man with rich family resources. His wife and son died young, and his sister Bai lived with him. Once, he went to London on business for three months. On the day he came back, he found an abandoned child, namely tom jones, in his bed, so he left the child at home and raised it as an adopted son.

Weston, the owner of the manor next door, has a daughter named Sophia. She is smart, beautiful, gentle and pure, and Western regards her as the apple of her eye. Sophia has been playing with Jones and Buffy since she was a child. Jones fell in love with Sophia, and Sophia loved Jones very much, loving his loyalty, kindness, generosity and integrity, and hating the treacherous and insidious Bliffer.

Jones frequented the home of George Sigri, the Westten gamekeeper, and fell in love with George's second daughter Molly, and they had sex.

After tom jones was deported, he was homeless and wandering around. On the way to exile, I met Pang Lizhi, a former rural teacher. Having no life, he became Jones' servant.

The master and servant experienced all kinds of thrills on the wandering road. Once, Jones rescued a woman named Mrs. Watt from a robber in the mountains and escorted her to a hotel in appleton. This Mrs. Watt is the former Jenny Jones who is suspected to be Jones' biological mother. After being fired, she became a prostitute. Jones was seduced by her at the hotel and finally had sex with her.

At this time, Sophia fled home with the maid, preparing to go to London to go to relatives, and happened to arrive at Upton Hotel. When her maid arrived at the hotel, she heard some people talking about Jones' tryst with Mrs. Watt and told Sophia all about it.

She was very angry when she heard this. After leaving a hand warmer and a note for Jones, she immediately packed her bags, left the hotel and hurried to London. Sophia went to London and stayed with her relative, Mrs. Bena Stern.

At this time, the man who was injured by Jones did not die, but recovered quickly, so Jones' murder could not be established and Jones was released from prison. Because of Mrs. Watt's exposure, Dowling, a lawyer, was forced to admit that he was bought by Bradford and instructed hooligans to commit perjury.

When Mrs Watt visited Orhuasui, she told the whole truth about Jones's birth, indicating that Jones's biological mother was Orhuasui's sister Bai Li Ji, and her biological father was not Pang Lizhi, but the son of a pastor of Orhuasui's friend. Jones is Orhuasui's nephew and Buffy's half-brother.

When Bai was seriously ill and dying, she told the secret to their family lawyer Dorian and asked him to tell her brother Orhuasui the truth. But it was hidden by Dorian. At this time, the origin of Jones, which Orhuasui had never known, came to light, and many entangled events were exposed one after another. At this point, all Burifu's tricks were exposed.

Orhuasui declared Jones his nephew, disqualified Brady as the legal heir, and decided to kick him out of the house and make Jones his heir. Hearing this news, West immediately changed his attitude towards Jones and agreed to the marriage of Sophia and Jones. Jones and Sophia finally got married.

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Tom jones, published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House, is Fielding's most mature masterpiece in art and an epoch-making masterpiece in the history of English novels.

Tom jones is a social life novel, covering all aspects of English life in the18th century.

In tom jones, Fielding presents a broad realistic picture of English society in the18th century: daily life in English landlord territory, villages, cities, hotels, theaters, markets, courts, prisons, grocery stores, businessmen's offices, salons in upper class and so on, as well as typical figures of various classes and social groups.

From the highest dignitaries and representatives of the big bourgeoisie to the people at the "bottom" of life-hooligans, thieves and robbers, everything is covered. The basic theme of this "funny epic" is the struggle between good and evil. The positive characters Jones, Sophia and Orhuasui symbolize kindness and virtue. Bradford, Mrs Bernstein and all kinds of Philistines symbolize evil.

In this work, Fielding reveals the decadent, hypocritical and mercenary nature of the British bourgeoisie through the story of tom jones and Sophia's indomitable struggle for the freedom and happiness of marriage, and satirizes the hypocrites, false saints and philistines in English society.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-tom jones