ENGLISH LITERATURE

“Joseph Andrews” a comic epic in prose A heroic epic has a towering hero, grand theme, a continuous action, a journey to underworld, wars, digressions, discovery, high seriousness, a high moral lesson and   bombastic diction in it and in “Joseph Andrews”   there is an ordinary hero, a journey from one place to another place, mock-wars, digressions, discovery, humour, a high moral and   a bombastic diction in it . Unlike a heroic epic, the hero of  “Joseph Andrews”  is an ordinary boy. He is a foot-man of Lady Booby who has fallen in love with him. But Joseph is very virtuous and chaste and therfore is dismissed from his job. We can call  “Joseph Andrews”  as  “The Odyssey on the road”  because both the works, Homer’s  “Odyssey”  and Fielding’s  “Joseph Andrews ”  in the first place involve a journey. Like Odysseus, Joseph Andrews after the displeasure of a lady, sets out on his way home and meets with many misfortunes on the way. So it would be fairly justified to call  Joseph A

  Direct and Indirect Object What is an object? An object in grammar is a part of a sentence, and often part of the predicate . It refers to someone or something involved in the subject 's "performance" of the verb. It is what the verb is being done to. As an example, the following sentence is given: Subject Verb Object Leila wrote the poem " Leila " is the subject , the doer or performer, " wrote " is a verb that refers to the action, " the poem " is the object involved in the action. Transitive and intransitive verbs A verb can be classified as transitive or intransitive according to whether it takes or doesn't take an object: If a verb takes objects, then it is a transitive verb . Example: They played soccer . → (The verb play takes ONE object ' soccer ') They sent him a postcard . → (