Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Language from Pamela to Shamela+

As i was reading the two novels I found something intresting about the language in each book. It was intresting to me the different sense I would receive when reading the works. From Pamela I found the language fitting and the type (aristocratic) i excpected the characters to speak. Yet in Shamela I felt it was very fake, and did not fit the story. I know Shamela ws written to poke fun at Pamela but was the language part of it as well?
I guess its the different stoy that may affect it but as it reads I feel Shamela is trying to uphold the language unlike Pamela where it just flows. Specificaly one scene stands out, where the squire comes to her bed (2 occasions on pages 318 and 328). as the scene unfolds you would not excpect such a refind language to fall out of the characters lips. For all the action that is occuring and the disgrace of ti all the reserved language does not seem to fit. the whole setup thus seems extreamly staged. We know Fielding is playing on Richardson's work but I get annoyed at it. As if he was trying to hard and cause of it the works seemed to suffer for it.

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