This document provides a comparison of the novels Pamela by Samuel Richardson and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It notes that both novels have lower class female protagonists, Pamela and Jane, who overcome obstacles to marry their masters, Mr. B and Mr. Rochester, respectively. The document outlines several similarities in plot events and themes between the two novels, such as the heroines refusing intimacy without marriage, presenting cautionary tales against affairs, and addressing issues of class and faith.

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
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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.

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