Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded" by Samuel Richardson

PAMELA

BY:Samuel
Richardson
Plot Summary

"
Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded" by Samuel Richardson is an epistolary novel of manners. The novel details the trials Pamela faces when Mr. B,

her employer, tries to compromise her virtue and even kidnaps her. "Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded" demonstrates the difficulties and value of

a young woman maintaining her chastity.

After Pamela's lady dies, her son, Mr. B, hires Pamela and is very kind to her. Pamela's parents worry about their daughter's virtue when they learn of his attentions. At Bedfordshire, Mr. B attempts Pamela's virtue several times, but she refuses him. Mrs. Jervis defends Pamela, but he also accuses Pamela of sullying his reputation and eventually allows her to leave unattended. Pamela is transported to Mr. B's Lincolnshire estate where she is held under the close supervision and persecution of the cruel Mrs. Jewkes. Pamela begins

Characters

Pamela

Pamela is the title character and protagonist. She works as a waiting maid, but her lady dies. Mr. B, her lady's son, hires Pamela to take care of his linens and is very kind to her. Pamela's parents warn her that Mr. B may have designs on her virtue and caution her to be on her guard. Pamela laments when Mr. B offers freedoms to her in the garden at Bedfordshire, but Mrs. Jervis convinces her to stay. After Mr. B attempts Pamela several more times at Bedfordshire and accuses her of having no regard for his reputation, Pamela decides to return to her parents, and Mr. B permits her to leave Pamela's journey is unusually long, and she finds herself at a farmer's abode. A letter from Mr. B claims her obstinacy makes this.....

Objects/Places

Bedfordshire Estate
Pamela works at the Bedfordshire Estate for Mr. B's mother when the lady dies. Mr. B first attempts Pamela at the Bedfordshire estate before allowing her to leave, only to kidnap her. After their wedding, Pamela and Mr. B return to Bedfordshire.
Lincolnshire Estate
Mr. B imprisons Pamela at his Lincolnshire Estate in order to further his goal of compromising her virtue. Mrs. Jewkes helps Mr. B by watching Pamela and preventing Pamela's escape. Eventually, Mr. B visits Pamela at the Lincolnshire Estate and, impressed with her extreme virtue, marries her.
Pond
Pamela considers drowning herself in a pond on the Lincolnshire Estate in order to preserve her virtue before Mr. B visits.
Rocks

Pamela and Mr. Williams use rocks along the gate at the Lincolnshire Estate as a mailbox by which to carry on their secret

Themes

Virtue

The most important theme of this novel is virtue; it is even mentioned in the title of the novel. The introduction praises Pamela and the author for their virtue. Pamela's parents warn her against Mr. B in order to protect her virtue. Lady Davers, Mrs. Jervis, the Bedfordshire gentry and the Lincolnshire gentry all praise Pamela for her virtue repetitively throughout the novel. Pamela's parents stress the importance of virtue when they tell her that it is better to lose her life than her virtue; they also say that only goodness and virtue makes one truly beautiful. Pamela demonstrates her virtue by rejecting Mr. B's many advances at Bedfordshire, even sleeping with Mrs. Jervis to protect her chastity. Pamela decides to leave Bedfordshire because of the danger to her virtue while under Mr. B's roof

Style
Point of View
The point of view of this novel is first person. This point of view is mostly limited and unreliable due to the nature of an epistolary novel and Pamela's inability to know anything other than what she witnesses and hears. This point of view is important to the novel due to the format and the fact that a large part of the premise of the novel revolves around Pamela's change in feelings toward Mr. B. Without this point of view, it would be impossible to see Pamela's feelings. This point of view is also important for enabling the reader to see Pamela's virtue since she can report on her actions and feelings about them, doubly demonstrating her virtue. There are only two narrative passages in this work, during which the point of view

Quotes

"Sure they can't all have designs against me, because they are civil!" Pamela, Letter III, p. 28.
"It is a thousand pities that such worthy hearts should not have better luck in the world! and wonders, that you, my father, who are so well able to teach, and write so good a hand, succeeded no better in the school you attempted to set up; but was forced to go to such hard labour. But this is more pride to me, that I am come of such honest parents, than if I had been born a lady." John, Letter V, pp. 29-30.

"But still your kind fatherly cautions came into my head, and made all these gifts nothing near to me what they would have been. But yet, I hope, there is no reason; for what good could it.....

وهاد موقع للروايه فيكم تقرأوها اون لاين
هون

طبعا انا ما فهمت ولا حرف لان ثقافتي روسيه
والشكر الكبير رح يكون لروميو هو اللي اعطاني اسما
وهو اللي فهم عن شو
انا بس نزلتا

was settled for the importance of the topic

thank you sawsan

وااااااااااااو
شكرا كتيييييييييييييييييييييير الك سوسن ويعطيكي ألف عافية

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