Parody

Cards (7)

  • Shamela
     ‘shamming a Sleep,’ acting ‘as if in my Sleep,’ ‘and then pretend to awake,’ before finally ‘I counterfeit a Swoon.’
    “O what a Difficulty it is to keep one's Countenance, when a violent Laugh desires to burst forth.”
     ‘pretended’ to be asleep as her ’master came pit a pat into the room.’   ‘forced to awake’
    ‘He was as rude as possible to me; but I remembered, Mamma, the instructions you gave me to avoid being ravished, and followed them’
  •  Pamela (1740)
     ‘dreadful time of reckoning.’
     ‘Strike me dead!’ 
     ‘screamed again and again,’
     ‘This time! This one time!’
     ‘I will not lose this opportunity,’
     Mrs Jewkes asking him incredulously the following morning if he will ‘give up such an opportunity as this?’ as she seems to have mellowed in her sleep. The OED defines ‘opportunity’ as something that ‘presents itself,’ something that is ‘necessary, fitting’ with ‘favourable circumstances’ indicating a greater chance of success.
  • Anti-Pam
    the momentary Rapture over, the Power of Reflection return'd to this unhappy ruin'd Girl; – she reproach'd him and herself; – she wept; – she exclaim'd; – but it was now too late.
  • could not recollect what had pass'd between her and Vardine, without a great deal of Uneasiness;
    Anti-Pam
  • Terri Nickel, 1993
    Pamela unsettles at least in part because of its tendency to be reduced to a mere fetish object
    Pamela as a text re- enacts the story of her heroine: she uses the man who would rape her… as a means of survival
    accommodate
  • Diana Rosenberger, 2019
    Pamela’s passivity is her power
    Anti-Pam and Sham "explicitly revealed its strategy of positioning the reader-as-voyeur."
  • Eliza Haywood - Anti-Pamela
    'Moment, by grasping your pretty Leg:
    she resisted with all her Strength, crying out at the same time'
    'in reality a little frightend at the manner in which he forced them upon her.
    'He found she trembled'
    pray don't offer such Freedoms any more'