Concetti Chiave
- Pamela is an epistolary novel recognized as the first English literature best-seller, highlighting the triumph of virtue through its heroine.
- It contrasts middle-class values of rectitude and morality with the freer lifestyle of the nobility, promoting equality and respect beyond social status.
- The novel symbolizes the union of the nobility and middle class, marking the rise of a new social and political system based on democracy and equality.
- Pamela, despite her low social status, is educated and emphasizes that all men are equal in the face of death and God's judgment.
- As the first psychological novel in England, it explores Pamela's internal conflict between love and maintaining her dignity against Mr. B's advances.
Pamela
Pamela is an epistolary novel, that is one written in letter and is the first example of best-seller in the history of english literature. Pamela is a poor fifteen-years-old girl who dares to resist her master's sexual advances and does so with a sense of moral value of her resistance. Pamela is considered a heroine and represents the triumph of virtue. The novel put forward the values of a middle class whose life is based on rectitude and morality, and is in contrast with the freer lifestyle of the nobles.
With the words "my soul is of equal importance with the soul of a princess" she strongly states her right to be respected apart from her social status, indeed the novel, with the marriage of Pamela and Mr. B, also celebrates the union of the nobility and the middle class. And, in real history as in the novel, it was the new middle class that forced the nobility to accept their ideals and way of life; it is the beginning of a new social and politic system, based on democracy, independence, freedom, equality and justice, so with no more social differences.Despite her social position, Pamela has aquired an education and has learned from a philosopher that men are all alike in front of death and God's judgement, but God punish with more violence nobles, because they had the possibility of helping poors but they didn't, the could spend their time in admirable activities but the prefered to dedicate their lives to useless and futile things.
Pamela is the first psychological novel written in England: the author show the readers the protagounist's feelings and doubts, he analyzes Pamela's attitude and points out the conflict between the love for Mr B and the need to resist his advances, in order to preserve her dignity.
Domande da interrogazione
- Qual è il tema principale del romanzo "Pamela"?
- Come viene rappresentata la classe media nel romanzo "Pamela"?
- Qual è l'importanza storica del romanzo "Pamela"?
Il tema principale del romanzo "Pamela" è il trionfo della virtù e la resistenza morale di una giovane ragazza contro le avances sessuali del suo padrone, rappresentando i valori della classe media in contrasto con lo stile di vita più libero dei nobili.
Nel romanzo "Pamela", la classe media è rappresentata come una classe basata su rettitudine e moralità, che sfida i nobili a rispettare i loro ideali e stili di vita, segnando l'inizio di un nuovo sistema sociale e politico basato su democrazia, indipendenza, libertà, uguaglianza e giustizia.
"Pamela" è considerato il primo romanzo psicologico scritto in Inghilterra e il primo esempio di best-seller nella storia della letteratura inglese, offrendo un'analisi dettagliata dei sentimenti e dei conflitti interiori della protagonista, e celebrando l'unione tra nobiltà e classe media attraverso il matrimonio di Pamela e Mr. B.
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