Fielding's Art of Characterization | 'Joseph Andrews'

  The painters and writers are artists. They paint life in their own way. The painters make portraits with the use of colours and the writers make portrait with words. In the field of writing, proficiency in the art of characterization is must. In fact, the writers are the most sensitive creatures. They feel everything more than any ordinary person. They observe things minutely and describe vividly in an elaborate style. The art of characterization means to create character with the help of imagination. The word ‘Imagination’ should not mislead us to think that the characters must be imaginary rather the characters may be real or imaginary. Imagination means that the writers do not copy the living human beings in a literal sense. They create characters and give them suitable appearance, put appropriate words into their mouths and often convey their own ideas and notions through characters. Henry Fielding has generally and frequently been appreciated for his great art of charac