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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis deals with an analysis of Jonathan Wild's moral views in
Henry Fielding's Jonathan Wild. The writer is going to discuss the factors that
make Wild become a man without morality. The writer also wants to know what
kind of man Wild is and how regards his crime. Through charaterization and
conflict as well as setting, the writer wants to show that Wild's views are against
society's moral views. Wild as the main character in this novel experiences
many inner and outer factors which cause him to become a man without morality
as the society judges him. The inner factors will show how the character has to
struggle against his hardship of life and how his personality is changed. While
the outer factors will show how the background of the main character, the
situation at that time, the social injustice and the other people who serve as a
device to show his immoral life; influence him so much both in his morality and
his moral views. Through the analysis, the writer finds that Jonathan Wild is a
man who elevates criminality. He never feels sorry for his crime since he finds
that by becoming a criminal he will survive. Therefore, what the society jugdes
him as a man without morality is absolutely correct.