亨利.菲尔丁的代表作《弃儿汤姆.琼斯的历史》从行文结构、人物刻画特点、语言特色三个方面展示了作者对人性的思考。乡村———城市———乡村的行文线索预示着人性由善良单纯到堕落腐化再到善良单纯的回归。扁平人物和圆形人物的设计描写使人物形象丰满真实,人性的善恶表现得淋漓尽致。小说幽默的语言加上作者第一人称适时的评论是对人性隐性的一面更加深刻的披露。 Henry Fielding’s masterpiece, “The History of the Abandoned Child, Tom Jones,” shows the author’s thinking on human nature from three aspects: its composition, characterization and language features. Village --- City --- The clue of the village indicates that humanity turns from good and simple to degeneration and corruption to good and simple return. The design description of the flat figures and the round figures make the characters full and true, and the good and evil of the humanity behave most vividly. The humorous language of the novel, combined with the author’s first-person comment in due course, is a more profound disclosure of the hidden side of humanity.