Conceit and Misfortune in Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield Ess

Conceit and Misfortune in Oliver Goldsmiths The Vicar of WakefieldFrom collar hundred years of Irelands history, The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction11 collects a conspiracy of exonerate work and samples of the works of many great Irish authors. Among the authors include in this volume is Oliver Goldsmith, an Irishman of great diversity in his writings and remembered mayhap as well for his individuality, character and generosity as for the dissimilar poems, essays, and works of fiction that he contributed to literary world. The Vicar of Wakefield, the selection chosen for the anthology, is not precisely significant because it is often considered his best work, but also as it is the and novel that Goldsmith ever wrote.22 The Vicar of Wakefield is an amusing and captivating tale that follows the spiritedness and hardships of the Vicar Primrose and his family, as they journey from happiness, through calamity, to the bare escape of commit ruin. The storys humor as well as its mend result both equally, and to a great extent, from Goldsmiths entry of the Primrose familys hot and invariable desire to rise once more to happiness by finding ways to better their dire financial straits and to reverse their societal decline. Although the passage in the anthology presents only foursome chapters from the novel, may of the ideas there presented introduce in, comment on, or foreshadow to various themes, lessons, and events of great importance to the work as a whole. These ideas will maintain through the plot, and culminate in the storys denouement at which time, if not previously, they will all be finally understood and their deduction revealed. Among them are the here apparently definite social boundaries that divides the rich from ... ...nt in the story Primrose had lamented, O, my children, if you could be learn to commune your own hearts, and crawl in what noble company you can make them, you would little regard the refinement and splendors of the worthless (p. 147). Had the rest the Primrose family ever been inclined to understand this first on, and to feel in the same way sated with the simple existence that quenched their patriarch, many of their misfortunes may have been avoided. However, without them storys lessons, adventures, hilarity, and glorious unpredicted conclusion would have been lost as well.Notes1 Tobin, Colm, ed. The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction. innovative York Penguin Books, 2001.2 All further references to The Vicar of Wakefield will be cited as part of the complete workGoldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. 1766. Ed. Stephen Coote. London Penguin Books, 1982.