PAMELA

The novel tells the story of an employer’s attempted seduction of a young servant woman, her subsequent victimization, and her eventual reward in virtuous marriage with the penitent exploiter. The society obliged Pamela to keep her virtue and to surrender in front of social standards (like social and domestic behaviour and roles).

She changed the meaning of servitude, in which women do not have to be men's properties for being servile; she also tried to be someone, demonstrating her capability to use her intelligence in order to defend her rights as a human being in a patriarchy-based society. She was subjected to social impositions of the English social classes, and the importance of chastity, virtue, femininity were depicted according to the social standards.