Hello everyone,
This blog is written in response to the thinking activity given in the classroom.
Q - If Pamela was in the contemporary time, will the story take any changes?
Ans
If Pamela, were set in the contemporary time there are several aspects in which storyline could be change drastically, because of social changes and rise of feminist mentality.
In the novel, we can observe that, Pamela a fifteen year old maid servant undergone sexual abuses from her new master Mr. B. after the death of Pamela's old master Lady B, she suffers from mental and physical trauma. Yet, she holds her virtue which is her chastity and tries not to succumb to Mr. B's sexual advances.
In a way, Pamela does not take any action against her master and tries to defend herself everytime. Whereas, if we see Pamela as a modern girl, it is certain that she would never suffer this much. She would take help of police and take legal actions against her master.
Pamela in modern times would never make such a mistake that, in novel, Pamela had made. As we have seen in the novel that pamela is captured at the other estate of Mr. B., And there also she faced sexual absuse and undergone mental trauma by both, Mrs. Jewkes and Mr. B., While, if Pamela had the modern perspective then she would run away from that estate with Mr. Williams, whom she has felt connected for a while, and was seemed nice person than tyrannical Mr. B.
In spite of, all these things and sexual abuses which she had faced, when Mr. B proposed Pamela, she is aggred to marry with him, that also with the consent of her parents. she forgot all the things that Mr. B did with her. Modern Pamela if we see, would never go to the person, who tormented her in past.
Thank you.
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