Monday, October 8, 2007
Sweet, Innocent Pamela
I really enjoyed reading this bookbecause I felt that it was very realistic and I kept wanting to know whether Pamela would finally end up with her master. I was very satisfied with the ending because the whole time I was reading, I kept hoping that they would confess their love for each other and be together. I feel that Pamela and the mater have a love-hate relationship. Eventhough the master acted like he despised Pamela and was very harsh with her, he was actually truely, madly and deeply in love with her.
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It strikes me as funny, that it often difficult for us to read this novel as a straight-up love story anymore, even as we seem to buy Pretty Woman as one. Many readers initially loved it for the love story aspect--perhaps our age has become too cynical for fairy-tale romances. But I thank you for reminding us of one of the principal and lasting appeals of the novel.
I also believe that our age has become desensitized to those "wholesome virtues" that Pamela exhibits making us weary of her actual motives. So emerged in a society full of goldigging whores we find an overly pious woman unrealistic and look a motive more sinister than just the fairytale love story angle.
I'm sorry to say but I certainly fall into the modern school of thought and was totally taken back by the unrealism of the ending as a perfect happy go lucky "love story".
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