Joseph Andrews

Joseph Andrews

by

Henry Fielding

Mr. Barnabas Character Analysis

Mr. Barnabas is a clergyman who has supposedly come to Mr. Tow-wouse’s inn in order to give last rites to the gravely injured Joseph Andrews, but he seems more interested in enjoying Mr. Tow-wouse and Mrs. Tow-wouse’s hospitality, putting off his visit to Joseph as long as he can. Mr. Barnabas is just one of many religious characters in the story who seems to enjoy earthly pleasures more than his faith indicates he should.

Mr. Barnabas Quotes in Joseph Andrews

The Joseph Andrews quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Barnabas or refer to Mr. Barnabas. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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).
Book 1, Chapter 12 Quotes

Joseph complained he was dry, and desired a little tea; which Barnabas reported to Mrs Tow-wouse, who answered, “She had just done drinking it, and could not be slopping all day;” but ordered Betty to carry him up some small beer.

Betty obeyed her mistress’s commands; but Joseph, as soon as he had tasted it, said, he feared it would increase his fever, and that he longed very much for tea; to which the good-natured Betty answered, he should have tea, if there was any in the land; she accordingly went and bought him some herself, and attended him with it.

Related Characters: The Narrator (speaker), Joseph Andrews, Betty, Mr. Barnabas, Mr. Tow-wouse, Mrs. Tow-wouse, The Surgeon
Page Number: 96
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 17 Quotes

As soon as he had seated himself, the stranger began in these words: “Sir, I do not care absolutely to deny engaging in what my friend Mr Barnabas recommends; but sermons are mere drugs. The trade is so vastly stocked with them, that really, unless they come out with the name of Whitefield or Wesley, or some other such great man, as a bishop, or those sort of people, I don’t care to touch.”

Related Characters: Abraham Adams, Mr. Barnabas, Mrs. Adams
Related Symbols: Aeschylus
Page Number: 111
Explanation and Analysis:
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Mr. Barnabas Quotes in Joseph Andrews

The Joseph Andrews quotes below are all either spoken by Mr. Barnabas or refer to Mr. Barnabas. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
Hypocrisy Theme Icon
).
Book 1, Chapter 12 Quotes

Joseph complained he was dry, and desired a little tea; which Barnabas reported to Mrs Tow-wouse, who answered, “She had just done drinking it, and could not be slopping all day;” but ordered Betty to carry him up some small beer.

Betty obeyed her mistress’s commands; but Joseph, as soon as he had tasted it, said, he feared it would increase his fever, and that he longed very much for tea; to which the good-natured Betty answered, he should have tea, if there was any in the land; she accordingly went and bought him some herself, and attended him with it.

Related Characters: The Narrator (speaker), Joseph Andrews, Betty, Mr. Barnabas, Mr. Tow-wouse, Mrs. Tow-wouse, The Surgeon
Page Number: 96
Explanation and Analysis:
Book 1, Chapter 17 Quotes

As soon as he had seated himself, the stranger began in these words: “Sir, I do not care absolutely to deny engaging in what my friend Mr Barnabas recommends; but sermons are mere drugs. The trade is so vastly stocked with them, that really, unless they come out with the name of Whitefield or Wesley, or some other such great man, as a bishop, or those sort of people, I don’t care to touch.”

Related Characters: Abraham Adams, Mr. Barnabas, Mrs. Adams
Related Symbols: Aeschylus
Page Number: 111
Explanation and Analysis: