Discuss the sexual hipocrasy that runs rampant through the novel "Joseph Andrews" using the character of Mrs. Slipslop as the primary basis for your argument.

In Henry Fielding's Joseph Andrews, Fielding attempts to parody the situations in society that, to him, appear unjust and inappropriate. One of the characters created to endure these parodies is Mrs. Slipslop, an employee of Lord and Lady Booby. Mrs. Slipslop embodies the traits which Fielding abhors about society. Her inappropriate use of language and her uncontrolled sexual impulses when combined with her undeniably misguided devotion to those of status make her the ideal comedic …

…what is monstrous and unnatural, and where our delight, if we examine it, arises from the surrprising absurdity, as in appropriating the manners of the highest to the lowest, or e converso;" (JA 26) Indeed that sums up the whole purpose of Fielding's Novel- to make fun of the ridiculous, natural, occurences within 17th Century society and the creation of Mrs. Slipslop helped to achieve that goal. Works Cited Fielding Henry, Joseph Andrews, Penguin Books Ltd. (1977)