The subgenre of the sentimental novel was associated specifically with eighteenth-century British literature: it emphasized sensitivity, emotion, and virtue. Although Henry Fielding, an 18th-century British playwright and novelist, believes that people should be virtuous and honestly good, he satirizes the falseness of sentimentalists because the basis of relationships between characters in a sentimental novel was based only on passion. For example, in Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Pamela's pursuer, Mr. B— has a burning passion for her and after he cannot sleep with her out of lust, he forces her to marry and the relationship works. Fielding's response was the novel Joseph Andrews, a satire that through various examples of failed and successful relationships, distinguishes the fleeting benefits and sometimes disastrous results of pursuing a relationship based on pure passion without rationality and the long-term benefits that arise when reason fails. the basis of a relationship. Fielding believes that passion is weak and unreliable while rationality should be the primary foundation of choice and action. Fielding uses Lady Booby to symbolize passion and Joseph Andrews to symbolize reason in the relationship between lover and footman. At the beginning of the story between Lady Booby and Joseph, it is obvious that Lady Booby is not acting according to reason when she attempts to seduce Joseph in her bedroom. She exposes herself and flirts with Joseph, exclaiming after exposing her skin, “I trusted a lonely man, naked in bed” (25). Passion drives her actions because she is convinced, not knowing enough that a handsome young man would not pass up the opportunity to sleep with his lover. Lady Booby...... center of paper...... report. Mr. Adams Parson, an utterly virtuous man and Joseph's mentor, preaches that "all passions are criminal in their excess" and that "...Love can blind us..." to our duty when Joseph is shocked by the rapture of Fanny (257). Although Parson, symbol of the virtuous and Christian ideal, teaches that reason is better than passion, he also demonstrates that he cannot completely obey his own intuitions. Mr. Parson allows his passions to overwhelm him and cloud his reason when he discovers that his youngest son, Jacky, has drowned. He is beside himself with pain and passion. However, he justifies his passion with rationality. The passion that overwhelms him is from a filial bond (271). Fielding shows that even though Mr. Parson's outburst is driven by passion, with reason, sometimes, as human beings, it is necessary and inevitable to surrender to passion.