LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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Pamela’s attempt to seduce her employer
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Pamela’s parents’ attempt to marry her to a wealthy landowner
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Pamela’s struggle to overcome her poverty through hard-work
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Pamela’s attempts to protect her chastity from the advances of her employer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pamela Andrews is a 15-year-old servant. On the death of her mistress, her mistress’s son, “Mr. B, ” begins a series of stratagems designed to seduce her. These failing, he abducts her and ultimately threatens to rape her.
Detailed explanation-2: -The three main themes in Pamela are the role of social class, virtue and femininity, and love and marriage. The role of social class: As a servant girl seduced and then married to a nobleman, Pamela wishes to be accepted into the aristocracy.
Detailed explanation-3: -In England, Samuel Richardson’s sentimental novel Pamela (1740) was recommended by clergymen as a means of educating the heart. In the 1760s the sentimental novel developed into the “novel of sensibility, ” which presented characters possessing a pronounced susceptibility to delicate sensation.