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2.43 AVERAGE
2.43 AVERAGE
Remember, virtuous ladies: If your employer tries to rape you, continue being sweet and demure while dressing your best and practicing your penmanship. It will make him want you so much he will eventually change for you before taking you as his bride.
Actually, I think I'm making this tedious torturous tome seem more interesting than it is. Avoid.
Actually, I think I'm making this tedious torturous tome seem more interesting than it is. Avoid.
I had so many problems with this book (especially how absolutely fucking creepy Mr. B is), but giving it two stars because I got through it and the Lady Davers entrance scene was an iconic moment.
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Unfortunately I had to reread this book for another class… needless to say, I would not wish this book upon my worst enemy.
challenging
slow-paced
Loveable characters:
No
okay samuel richardson, I appreciate you for shaping the epistolary form... but what do you mean she falls in love with the man that wanted to rape her for the first half of the novel
emotional
funny
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The only reason I like this book is because of class I do not recommend
challenging
slow-paced
If scholarship were based solely on quality, Pamela would have been lost to the ages a long time ago (and good riddance), but unfortunately for me, scholarship is also based on influence, and this stupid book, despite being extremely poorly written, repetitive, and didactic in all the wrong ways, is one of the foundation texts of English Literature. For a hundred years afterwards, you were either a Pamelist or Anti-Pamelist. (I would have been an Anti-Pamelist.)
Are you ready for this? Here is the entire book:
No joke, you guys. And the second volume, a sequel Richardson wrote after the public went insane, isn't even worth mentioning, it's so godawful boring.
Are you ready for this? Here is the entire book:
Pamela: I am virtuous and noble and also beautiful! Leave me alone!
Mr. B: But you are so young and beautiful, I must have you!
Pamela: I would rather die than be ruined!
Mr. B: THAT MAKES ME WANT YOU MORE!
Pamela: I WOULD RATHER DIE!!!!!!!
Mr. B: If you get any more beautiful and desirable and unattainable, I don't know if I will be able to refrain from raping you, and that makes me cranky.
Pamela: I am an important symbol of class and gender inequality!
[Later]
Mr. B: So, do you want to get married and stuff?
Pamela: Okay!
No joke, you guys. And the second volume, a sequel Richardson wrote after the public went insane, isn't even worth mentioning, it's so godawful boring.