Richardson's "Pamela" and Fielding's "Bridget Jones's Diary"

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This paper discusses that both "saucy" women tell their stories through journals. The author believes that, though Bridget Jones is described as a thirty-something singleton in London, she clearly does not equal Pamela in emotional maturity. The paper contends that, whereas Bridget Jones is ostensibly free to make choices regarding her job and the men she dates and sleeps with, Pamela appears to have no choice but to submit.

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"Richardson thus tackles many themes that would have been shocking to many residents of 18th century England. As Pamela herself chronicles her emotional growth, much of her musings stray into the erotic. Initially, she wonders how "Love borders so much on Hate." Eventually, she wonders at her growing attraction to Mr. B, and despairs over her inability to hate her brutish captor. Because she does not love Mr. B at first, there is a clear undercurrent of sexual conflict and eroticism to many of her writings."

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