The document provides a comparative study of the novels Pamela by Samuel Richardson and Nirmala by Munshi Premchand. It summarizes the key plot points of each novel, including Pamela's struggles against her employer Mr. B's attempts to take advantage of her and her eventual marriage to him, and Nirmala's forced marriage to a widowed man much older than her which leads to suffering. The document also discusses themes of gender, class, and the status of women in society explored in both novels and provides criticism comparing the works.

1. COMPARATIVE STUDY
OF RICHARDSON’S
PAMELA
WITH PREMCHAND’S
NIRMALA
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2. Name: Dhvani D. Rajyaguru
Roll No: 04
Paper Code:22393 Paper no. 102:
Name: Literature of the Neo-classical Period
Subject: Comparative study of
Pamela and Nirmala
Dep. Name: Eng Department, MKBU University.

3. POINTS TO PONDER
Life of Samuel Richardson and Munshi Premchand
Summary of Pamela and Nirmala
Themes in Pamela and Nirmala
Pamela VS Nirmala & Critics Corner
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4. AUTHOR
INFORMATION:
Premchand:
• (born July 31, 1880, Lamati, near Varanasi, India—died October 8,
1936, Varanasi), Indian author of novels and short stories in Hindi and
Urdu who pioneered in adapting Indian themes to Western literary
styles.
• Compact in form and style, they draw, as do his novels, on a notably
wide range of northern Indian life for their subject matter. Usually
they point up a moral or reveal a single psychological truth.
• He wrote Hindi fiction Nirmala in January 1927.

5. SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Samuel Richardson, (baptized Aug. 19, 1689,
Mackworth, near Derby, Derbyshire, Eng.—died July
4, 1761, Parson’s Green, near London),
He is English novelist who expanded the dramatic
possibilities of the novel by his invention and use of
the letter form (“epistolary novel”). His major novels
were Pamela (1740) and Clarissa (1747–48).

6. SUMMARY OF PAMELA
A 15 year old maid writing letter to her
Parents that Lady B is died, afraid of
losing position
Mr B offers to keep her and other
Servants Position on.
After watching Mr B’s behaviour
Pamela request to send her home.
Mr B trying to seduce her,rape her and
take advantage of her many times..
Pamela is sent to Lincolnshire by trick
where she met lady rude Lady Jewkes..
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7. Here she introduced with a nice man named Mr. Williams but wasn’t able to meet him..So
she started to writing him letter..
Mr. Williams helped Pamela but attacked by thief.
Mr B arrived and changed himself into servant named himself Nan..
He again tried to move closer to Pamela with the help of Mrs. Jewkes.Pamela stopped her
breathing.This act changed Mr.B’s heart.
After that incident, Pamela tells her parents that Mr. B's behavior changes.Mr B’s heart
changed for her. When he says he might maybe sort of think about asking her to marry him,
Pamela still just says she wants to go home.
He furiously sends her away to her parents … until he writes and begs her to come back. For
some reason, Pamela believes all his talk about reform and admits that she has some teeny-
tiny feelings for him, too. So, she heads back.
After some tedious agonizing about their class differences, they decide to marry. Because
Pamela is the bestest ever and nobody hates her.
Mr. B introduces Pamela to his daughter from a youthful dalliance from , who believes Mr. B
is her uncle.
Pamela is thrilled to have her in the family and begs Mr. B to let her come live with them.

8. SUMMARY OF NIRMALA
The lack of social security can devastate a
woman’s life.
Instead of getting married to Bhuvanmohan, a
young man from a well-to-do family, she is
forced to tie a knot with the widowed
Totaram, a man her father’s age.Just because
her father died.
Nirmala holds veneration towards that man
and feels a sense of duty for him.
On the other hand, Totaram expects her
intimacy and seduces her, but Nirmala fails to
resurface.
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9. She is Totaram’s second wife; moreover he has three grown-up sons. Of
them, the eldest one - Mansaram - is a year older than 15-year-old
Nirmala.but Totaram constantly feels they have affair.
Thus, Totaram sends his eldest son, Mansaram, to a hostel. This move
brings clouds of gloominess into Mansaram’s life; as a result, he soon
dies of sheer depression.
Totaram’s second son Jiyaram blames her mother for his brother’s
death, and he commits suicide in sheer frustration.
His third son Siyaram is lured away by a fake saint and he runs away
from home.
Totaram distraught by his fate’s circumstances moves out to find his
only alive son. After many days, Totaram returns home only to find that
his second wife Nirmala has passed away.
Behind her, Nirmala leaves her daughter and a legacy of suffering.

10. THEMES IN PAMELA AND
NIRMALA
PAMELA NIRMALA
GENDER DOWRY
CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS CHILD MARRIAGE
STATUS OF WOMEN IN
SOCIETY
PLIGHT OF WOMAN
SUBTITLE MIRROR OF SOCIETY
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11. SIMILARITIES IN BOTH
• Child Marriage
• Class politics
• Psychology and the Self
• Realism and County Life
• Marriages
Critic Corner
and review of Nirmala:
According to
Geethanjali Panday
“In Pamela has taken
up issues such as
dowry, prostitution,
widowhood, May-and-
Dec marriages of young
girls with old men, and
so on” (Thorner 217)

12. Pamela
VS
Nirmala
• The nature of
Virtue
got successful
• Feminist Novel
• Pamela’s struggle
is admired
• The nature of
Virtue got failure
• Anti-Feminist
novel
• Nirmala’s
struggle ignored.

13. LETTER TO NIRMALA FROM PAMELA
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Dear Nirmala,
I know you are in pain..I know you wants to say many
things but this cruel society don’t want to listen you, don’t
want to understand you..You are struggling hard..But you
know one thing when I was only 15 years old, poor
servant..Mr. B tried to take advantage of poor me..But I
never gave up,I always saved my virtue..But I am sorry you
tried your best thus got destroyed, got failed..Its not your
fault..But after century now people seems to realise you..I
Pamela promise you I am always with you..
Yours,
Pamela

14. REFERENCES:
(MLA CITATION )
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Premchand". Encyclopedia Britannica, 4 Oct.
2021, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Premchand. Accessed 7 December 2021.
Sale, William Merritt. "Samuel Richardson". Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Jun. 2021,
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Richardson. Accessed 7 December 2021.
Richardson , Samuel. “Premchand Indian Author.” Theme of Pamela, Shmoop ,
https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/pamela-richardson/themes.
“Nirmala by Munshi Premchand.” KEVEIN BOOKS AND REVIEW, 8 Sept. 2016,
http://www.keveinbooksnreviews.in/2016/09/book-review-nirmala-by-munshi-
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15. THANK YOU..