presentation on paper 102 MA Sem-2

1. Comparison Between
Pamela and Jane Eyre
Prepared by:- Sneha Agravat
Batch:- 2020-22( MA sem 1)
Paper 2:- Literature of the Neo-classical period
Roll no.:-17
Enrollment No.:- 3069206420200001
Email Id:- snehaagravat2000@gmail.com
Submitted to:- S.B.Gardi Department Of English Maharaja
krishnkumarsinhji Bhavngar University

2. Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Born:-1689
Considered the first true English
novel
Published:- 1740
Theme:- Virtue
Epistolary novel
Romance novel

3. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Born:-21 April 1816
Died :- 31 March 1855
Published:- 16 October 1847
 Theme:-Love,Family, and Independence
Gothic Fiction
Romance novel

4. Comparison Between Pamela and Jane
Eyre
Events are quite similar in both novels.
 Pamela is a lower class girl who by overcoming many obstacles is able to
marry her master, Mr B, who she loves, and thus climbs the social ladder.
 Jane is a poor middle class girl who eventually has the fortune of
marrying the man she loves, her master Mr Rochester.
 Both refused to to live with Mr B and Mr Rochester without marrying
them.
 Both novels provide a cautionary tale against affairs outside of marriage
showing what could happen to Pamela and Jane if they had given into
the offers by Mr B and Mr Rochester.

5.  The apperance Of the child Of Mr. B and that Of mr.rochester Seems to
have the same function in both novels.
 Both Jane and Pamela are very class conscious.
 Other type of interatexuality Present in both is verbal echoes
 Both are concerned with Christian virtue and their faith is an integral part
of their characters.
 Jane, like Pamela, persists in referring to Rochester as “my master,”
though without the superlatives that Pamela uses for Mr. B.
 This are few similarities in this two novels.

6.  Apperrance of clergyman
 Both protagonist express a need to get away from their masters.
 Social difference between young girls and their future husbands are
different and at that time similar.
 The apperance Of the fortune teller:-
 Pamela:-Used as a warning
 Jane Eyre:- Used as way to get into the thought of the young girl.
 In both novel Mr.B and Mr. Rochester have a past One would not
necessarily be proud of.

7. References
 Brontë, Charlotte (16 October 1847). Jane Eyre. London, England: Smith,
Elder & Co. Pp. 105.
 “Love and Social Differences in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela; or, Virtue
Rewarded and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.” Berg, Kristine Syvertsen,
2011, www.duo.uio.no/handle/10852/25304.
 Richardson, Samuel (1740). Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1st ed.). London:
Messrs Rivington & Osborn.

8. Thank you