PAMELA - SAMUEL RICHARDSON

The extract that I'm going to analize behaves to an epistolary novel written by Samuel Richardson Pamela and virtue rewarded.

It is organized into two parts. The first is a letter from Lady Daver, Bliffil's sister, to her brother, that Pamela has casually discovered, and the second part is Pamela's letter to her parents.

Pamela includes Lady Daver's letter in order to make her parents know about her reputation. As a matter of fact lady Daver wrote the letter to ask her brother to not torment Pamela in order to not create embarassment for theyr noble family. Pamela wants to show that also a component of Bliffil's family tries to defend her and also gave a good judgement saying that she was an innocent and good girl. Lady Daver uses a social argumentation to convince her brother. Bliffil was a noble and he couldn't make an unequal match because Pamela was only a wretch.

In the second part of the letter Pamela uses a religious argumentation to discuss Lady Daver's words. Pamela doesn't accept the superiority of the aristocracy. She uses references to the talent parable of Puritanism to say that noble people aren't noble by their abilityes, so at birth people were equal and also in front of God ther's no difference.

The extract is usefull to the reader to understant Pamela's characterization because the two letters give differets points of view, making the reader free. Pamela's characterization is maily made un by her reputation and her thoughts that are deeply linked to the mentality of the time.