PAMELA, OR VIRTUE REWARDED

 PAMELA, OR VIRTUE REWARDED- SAMUEL RICHARDSON 

  

       Pamela, or virtue rewarded 

 This blog is a response to the blog task given to us by Vaidehi Haryani ma'am  as a classwork.  In this blog  I am going  to  explain the poem "PAMELA, OR VIRTUE REWARDED."

AUTHOR 

SAMUEL RICHARDSON 

"Where words are restricted, the eyes often  talk a great  deal." 

Samuel Richardson was an 18th century  English writer and printer.  He received  very  little education and not go beyond English.  He was an established printer and published  for most of his life and printed almost  500 different  works, including journals and magazines.  Richardson was a skilled letter writer  and his talent  is traced back to his childhood. During  the 1730 his press became known  as one of the three  best in London.  His name was on a list established by the pope containing the names of book that catholic were not allowed  to read.  He married his employer's daughter but lost her with all their children then, he remarried, buy only four  out of their six children  survived. He died age of 71.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON CONTRIBUTION OF ENGLISH LITERATURE 

He expanded the dramatic  possibilities of the novel by his invention and use of the latter  form, known  as the epistolary  style.  He established  the novel  as we know it: a long prose narrative concerned with the actual world  and the men and  women  who inhabit it. He Created the novel of character.  

WHAT IS EPISTOLARY NOVEL 

Epistolary novel; that is, novels written as series of latter's- were extremely popular during the 18th century and it was RICHARDSON'S   'PAMELA ' 

PAMELA, OR VIRTUE REWARDED 

Pamela, or virtue rewarded, an endless series of latter's  telling of the trials, tribulations, and the Final happy marriage  of a too sweet young maiden, published  in four  volume extending over the years 1740-1741. It's  success  at the time was enormous, and Richardson  began  another  series  of latter's Which occupied his leisure  hours for next six years. 

Pamela tells the story  of a fifteen  year old maidservant name PAMELA Andrew's, whose  employer, MR. B, a wealthy landowner, makes unwanted  and inappropriate  advances towards her after  the death of her mother.  The full title, Pamela;or,  virtue rewarded, makes plain Richardson  moral purpose.  A best  seller of its time, Pamela was widely  read but was also criticised for its perceived licentiousness and disregard  for class barriers. The action of the  novel is told through letters and journals  entries from Pamela to her parents.  Richardson  highlights  a theme of naivety, illustrated through the eyes of Pamela. 

Richardson chose the epistolary  form because  of its immediacy. The first  person  voice  of someone  in the throes of the expression does draw in the reader, and happily plunged into the story.  Unfortunately, Pamela's  voice  did not interest  me for very long. I soon began  to find her endless  complaining tiresome and her infinite  perfection quite irritating.  Of course, she is writing to her parents, so it is natural  to relay compliments  that she has received, knowing  that they would  enjoy  hearing praise of her, but she goes on at such length about  how  everyone finds  her so remarkable, so good, so smart, so beautiful, that it's hard not to think and so vain.