Joseph Andrews

Joseph Andrews

by

Henry Fielding

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Strawberry Mark

The strawberry mark on Joseph Andrews’s chest symbolizes the importance of heredity in 18th-century Britain and how it defined a person’s social class, but it also perhaps provides some humorous commentary on it. The…

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Aeschylus

Parson Abraham Adams is known for always carrying around a book by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, which he’s had for 30 years. The book hints at Adams’s studious and bookish nature, but it also…

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