Thinking Activity- Pamela

 Hello readers;

I am deal with the Pamela  a reliable narrator this  task given by our professor. Let's discuss..

 

Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel frist published in 1740 by English writer Samuel Richardson considered one of the first true English novel, it serves as Richardson's version of conduct literature about marriage.

These attributes here :-

- shares values with the implied author and reader.

- Accurately tells the story to the best of his ability.

- Tries to stay objective or has no stake in the story.

 In short, Pamela is a didactic representative of virtue. This virtue is presented to us in the story of Pamela's resistance against the sexual advances Mr.B. and indeed, on the level of the narration itself Pamela is treated and presented as both an extremely virtuous girl and a reliable narrator.

The reason for this is that Pamela's story is far more than the narration of the experience of a servant girl. It always was and obviously still is a matter of politics and political correctness, almost comparable to the alleged sexual affairs of President Clinton. In Pamela's case, however, we do not ask whether he really did it. Nobody wants to spare Mr.B. the embarrassment of being guilty of sexual harassment. Pamela's virtue, she shares with Mr.B. Clinton. Both have been elected to hold a powerful public position, with the difference that Pamela has not been elected by the people but by her author samuel Richardson.

Pamela's virtue is a role model for every woman's behaviour, an instrument to teach proper conduct. Pamela th follow description applies to her: she is regured as "worthy to be followed in the most critical and affecting cases by the virgin, the bride, and the wife".

Richardson's intention to create such a pattern for every lady in the country in the form of an epistolary novel causes several problems. He knows that story become a virtue has to be entertaining to be read and able influence of reader. Richardson's described the divert and entertain and to instruct and improve at the same time. He also wished to do this story so probable, so natural and so sensible.

Pamela is convinced that the she has s a reliable narrator. In her opinion her letters and journal entries contain all her 

" Private thoughts..and all the secrets of my heart"

But everybody know that the writer's judgement it not a necessary correct. Pamela has to prove her reliability as a narrator and a narrator who tells fairy tales and romances is far from being regarded as trustworthy. 

The story revolves around Pamela and her intimate and private thoughts and experiences many also call it a 'psychological' novel. In the novel is viewed as the epitome of virtuous and Christan femininity with her dedication to chastity docility and humanity.

Curiously, many of the same gender stereotypes we assign to men and women the understanding of masculinity and femininity all the way back in the mid  18th century.

" You are so pretty, that, go where you will, you can never be free from the design of some of our sex".

Wind of my point with so many discussion through Pamela character, this novel she represent women behaviour.