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Richardson
the main characters
Clarissa
paragon of female
virtue
delicacy
great willpower
choosing to die che shows how her will is stronger than Lovelance's
she rapresents her puritan middle class (
Boring but safe world
)
Lovelance
classic aristocratic libertine
no respect for womens
never regretted of what he do to Clarissa
he tries to submit clarissa to his will but he can't
he represents his urban world (
exciting but dangerous
)
story of Clarissa
Clarissa's family wants to marry her with a man for financial reasons
but a friend of her (Lovelance) manages to get her out of trouble
twist, Lovelance (cynical libertine) turns out to be a bad friend who rapes and drugs her
she, no longer enduring the situation, plans her death
at the end she dies
Lovelace is killed by Clarissa's cousin in a duel
life
1689 born in Derbyshire
Clarissa
the longest novel in the English language
2 volumes plus 5
epistolary novel
Pamela
Sir Charles Grandison
stylistic features
it is mainly told
in epistolary form
trough two pannel correspondences
Clarissa and her female friend
Lovelance and his male friend
multiple points of view
no true point of view
the version of events are told by each character
we are projected in the mind of the person who wrote the letter