Introduction
Pamela’s character is devoid of any taste of sentiment as to be inevitably coarse. She has no sense of her own dignity or of that of any other being. She slowly confronts two challenges, which are social and the truth of Mr. B. depraved past. The author shows the strategy that Pamela uses to plot her scheme, as she behaves like a lady and makes lady Davers believe she is a tart and a mistress. She has sacrificed a lot in order to get married to Mr. B, as the society criticizes her, where she adorns her image with genteel femininity. Because of her marriage to Mr. B., she gets to live a happy and rich life, where she is no longer a servant and gets the attention she deserved. She marries Mr. B. in a chapel, on Thursday, and remains loyal to Mr. B as she defends their marriage against criticism from sister Davers (Richardson 260).
Her marriage to Mr. B is a proper reward for her virtue as she transforms from the life of a poor servant in Mr. B’s house to owning huge amount of property that Mr. B included in her will. She is happy as she bears children, gets visitations from her parents, and maintains a healthy relationship with sister Davers. She is popular among the local noblest and gentries in the society. She finally thrives in instituting the moral character of Miss Goodwin. The author Richardson prepares the reader for this transition through the cumulating events that lead to the marriage of Pamela to Mr. B. in the chapel. This transit through the suffering she undergoes, and the success she later has in life, where she bears children, and eventually gets wealthy.
The justification for the novel are much convincing to the reader, as it provides a debate for exploring the emotional information involved in protecting the most decisive of private relationships in Pamela’s life, which is the spousal bond. The novelist justifies this deed of marriage as a sign of true love and loyalist. He presents the afterlife of Pamela's marriage as a happy one, where she obliges to serve her husband and respect him. We are to understand the marriage of Pamela to Mr. B as a way of him making Pamela his consenting mistress, where he expects to go by his rules and guidelines in serving him.
Works Cited
Richardson, Samuel. Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
