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How Fielding was influenced by Richardson's Pamela?

How Fielding was influenced by Richardson's Pamela? While writing his novel Joseph Andrews

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How Fielding was influenced by Richardson's Pamela?

In a way ,we can say that Fielding was influenced by Richardson Pamela ,in which Richard portray a woman ,whi is very good in manners and an example for the women of society and the women of society truly consider her as an ideal to copy ,Fielding want to portray a character which explains the virtue of men and he make a character Joseph Andrew which fulfill all the requirements of a good man ,also Fielding want to explain that ,only not the women are virtuous but men are too virtuous and there are women ,who try to seduce men .

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