While widely acknowledged for their well-knitted structure and explicit moralizing intention, Henry Fielding's novels actually have a more complicated substructure which includes many contradictory or even opposing heterogeneities. Sympathy, a moral sentiment that may lead to contradictions, is such an example. On the one hand, sympathy by nature is good and, as a virtue that distinguishes the kind from the evil, can trigger moral behavior. On the other hand, however, sympathy may prevent one from seeing the truth so that he makes unreasonable ...
