The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding Books
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'The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great'' is one of the best works by Fielding. Through the strong and well-drawn character of Jonathan Wild, he presents biting sarcasm and humour. The work shows deep relations between a simpleton and a criminal at the peak of crime!
The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding Books
This book was just okay. It is written completely tongue in cheek like the other Fielding books I've read, but wasn't quite as amusing. The characters were not particularly well developed, and the story lacked substance. The Heartfree's story was pretty good, but was Mrs. Heartfree really so amazing that every man who ever saw her fell madly in love with her? After about the fifth one it got a little tiresome.Product details
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The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding Books Reviews
For Henry Fielding, 'great men', like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, and 'great rogues', like Jonathan Wild, are synonymous terms. Greatness consists in bringing all manners of mischief on mankind.
Alexander the Great overran a whole empire with fire and sword, pillaging, sacking, burning, enslaving and destroying millions of his fellow creatures. Julius Caesar abolished the republican liberties of his country in order to take the power into his own hands.
At the opposite side of the spectrum, Jonathan Wild was a great prig (pick-pocket), cheating the very tools who were his instruments to cheat others 'I had rather stand at the summit of a dunghill, than at the bottom of a hill in paradise.'
For Henry Fielding, greatness rimes with ambition, lust, avarice, rapaciousness, hypocrisy, power, pride, insolence, insatiability, 'a privilege to kill, a strong temptation to do bravely ill'. Greatness is 'playing with the passions of men, to work one's own purposes out of the jealousies and apprehensions to create those great arts which the vulgar call treachery, dissembling, promising, lying, falshood, summed up in the collective name of POLLITRICKS.'
And all that for what? Not for the general good of society, but for the power and the glory of the great man himself, for the satisfaction of his vices.
The fact that 'he is hated and detested by all mankind makes him inwardly satisfied. Otherwise, why should he stand at the head of a multitude of prigs, called an army, in order to molest his neighbours, to introduce rape, rapine, bloodshed and every kind of misery on his own species, to desire maliciously to rob those subjects, to reduce them to an absolute dependence on his own will, to betray the interest of his fellow-subjects, of his brethren.'
Jonathan Wild 'I ought rather weep with Alexander, that I have ruined not more.'
Another target of the author are the hypocritical priests 'Life is sweet, I had rather live to eternity ... so many wallow in wealth and preferment.'
He insults the ordinary, who attends to the spiritual needs of condemned criminals; 'You are more unmerciful to me than the Judge.'
Henry Fielding's forceful diatribe against all conquerers, tyrants, pollitrickers, and vicious 'prigs' still sounds extremely modern.
He blames the majority of mankind to continue to praise the said great men.
But, 'there are still some, who view these great men with a malignant eye and dare affirm that these great men are always the most pernicious and generally the most wretched and truly contemptible of all works of creation.'
This book is a ferocious and, unfortunately, still very topical satire.
A must read.
I received a message that my two orders for today, July 27, had been downloaded onto my , but they have not.
I usually receive them immediately - but it's been too long, and I fear they have not been loaded for my . I've had no problems downloading books this week, but then a box popped up about whether I use Windows 8. I do, but that has not stopped the orders from being received until today - and my WiFI is working just fine. Please do send these books to my Ki8ndle. The other one was Amelia - in one volume.
This book was just okay. It is written completely tongue in cheek like the other Fielding books I've read, but wasn't quite as amusing. The characters were not particularly well developed, and the story lacked substance. The Heartfree's story was pretty good, but was Mrs. Heartfree really so amazing that every man who ever saw her fell madly in love with her? After about the fifth one it got a little tiresome.
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