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VMischis - Comparison between "The Journal" and "Pamela"
by VMischis - (2019-05-07)
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THE JOURNAL chapter V

(Daniel Defoe )

PAMELA

(Samuel Richarson)

It is a journal written by Robinson Crusoe who writesa about his shipwrecked and how he survives on a deser island.

This form of the journal gives to the reader a realistic view of the situation.

 

The narrator is the protagonist right because it is a journal and it is written using the personal pronoun “I”, this makes the story almost real.

 

 

The protagonist called Robinson Crosoe is shown using different words or actions : “poor miserable”, he called the island where he is shipwrecked “Island of Despair” meaning that he feels alone and unluckly, he said “I had neither food, house, clothes” through this sentence an intelligent reader can understand the protagonist before the shipwrecked he had got all those things and this the reason why he feels their loss.

 

Through the presence some words an intelligent reader can understand what is the location like: “dreadful storm”, “Island of Despair”, “dismal”, “wild beasts”, “savages” make the reader understand that a confortable place indeed the protagonist repeats endlessly rains.

 

The story is narrated in two months time frame, in the 1659.

Pamela ” is the title of an epistolary written by Samuel Richarson.

The narrative form of the letter gives the possibility to the reader to identify his/hersel with the protagonist.

 

The protagonist of the XI letter is Pamela who is a servant and she is writing to her mum to tell her what is happened.

The protagonist is also the narrator making the story more real.

In this letter the protagonist is shown through her feeling she is afraid of her master’s attention, she said:“I stood still confounded, and began to tremble “.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was in the summer-house in the little garden “, the summer-house is the location of the story.