I'm going to discuss an extract from one of Richardson's novel. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an epistolary novel ,epistolary novel means that is a novel made up by letters ,they  were extremely popular during the eighteenth century .the title name was borrowed from sidney's pastoral romance Arcadia.When the novel appeared it was an immidiate success all over Europe because it reminded readers of the Cinderella folk tale.

The novel tells the story of a beautiful but poor 15-year old servant-maid named Pamela whose master, Mr. B, a nobleman, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother whose maid she was since the age of 12. Mr. B is infatuated with her, first by her looks and then her innocence and intelligence but his high rank hinders him from proposing marriage.

 She rejects him but  at the end she begins to realize that she is falling in love with him.

The writer  attempted to instruct through entertainment  and he thought the letter allowed the reader greater access to a character's thoughts . In Pamela, the letters are almost exclusively written by the heroine, restricting the reader's access to the other characters; we see only Pamela's perception of them. The reader knows facts by her point of view and knows only what she wants to tell.In the novel, Pamela writes two kinds of letters. At the beginning of the novel, while she is deciding how long to stay on at Mr. B's after the death of his mother, she writes letters to her parents relating her various moral dilemmas and asking for their advice. After Mr. B abducts her and imprisons her in his country house, she continues to write letters to her parents, but because she is unsure whether or not her parents will ever receive them, they are to be considered both letters and a diary.

 In this case the letter is adressed to her parents in which she informs their of the situation in her house, focusing hers attention on Mr B ‘s behaviour.Pamela is the main character and the point of view by whom we know the story. The narrator is she and it is  a first person inner narrator who is also eye-witness. All the information are filtered by the speaking voice, so the reader is not free to make an objective opinion. By the letters comes out that she is a double person.In the first paragraph  Pamela is frail,frighten and she is in subjection in front of her master.She interrupts what she did because she she feares that her master is coming. Her master is her worse enemy :" as company..."but there is somebody that make her better: mrs Jervis, the reader come to know that there is an other cahracter. Jervis informs Pamela that she has spoken to her with her master.In the second paragraph  there is a sort of irony in the words of Pamela:"I am sorry.."she diminish herself but she is happy that he thinks about her.  She isn't happy or pretend to be unhappy because he thinks to her, she thinks he ruins her reputation, she is afraid by the possibility of losing her virtue. In the fourth paragraph: she thinks that if any lady in the land is wit as she, they must be poor ladies, because she is not able to manage her life. The last sentence "but let that pass" sound as if she were trying to send away her thoughts. This paragraph comes to surface the pride of Pamela and her high consideration of herself. In the fifth paragraph Pamela expresses her thoughts, she thinks she vexes him because "he can't make a fool of such a one as I". Pamela is very afraid , she wants  to leave the house and  her master says she shall go away but the governess informs Pamela that the master added he "wished that he knew a lady of birth, just such another as yourself, in person and mind, and he would marry her tomorrow". The dialogue between Pamela and Mrs Jervis seems to become a discussion; Pamela underlines once again that she knows which is the real aim of the master and her great fear. She adds she will feel safe only when she will be at home with her parents.