The violence in the verb "attack'd" translates the state of mind and ideology that Shamela adopted in her strategy to belittle Mr.B. "I attack'd"; Just before this verb, there is the pronoun "I" which refers to Shamela. Therefore, she is responsible of it, she assumes it and does not regret it. The women attack'd the men, when in the first passage, it is the opposite because he came to her and put his hand in her bosom. Therefore, there is an exchange of roles between Shamela and Mr.B. In the second excerpt, Mr.B becomes the victim.

If we compare the use of "Heart" in Pamela and the use of "Head" in Shamela, it can sum up what the difference is all about.

Pamela is depicted as someone who cares about her honour, her family's and if Mr.B takes advantage of her or not, if he respects her intimacy and privacy. However, Shamela does not mind. In the contrary, she seeks to give him the image of the guilty man when she is the one in reality that has to do with all the fake/acted incident. Thus, Pamela cares about relationship, love, honour, family (Heart) when Shamela thinks about how to get Mr. B guilty and how to take advantage of him, how to act, how to make him feel (Head). Therefore, it's a fight between the Heart and the Head going on here, between honour and wealth, Pamela vs. Shamela.

When Shamela describes how she faints, it says a lot about the goals that she has in mind to achieve and how she does. In fact, "my Eyes wide open" transmits a message of full consciousness and full acceptance over what she does. Shamela, or also "Shameful Pamela", does not regret anything about what she is doing to frighten Mr.B and victimize herself. Moreover, the use of the verb "to fix" here talks about her eyes but also the ideology of staying fix and rigind in front of such situation conveys a message of Shamela as very determined to make him regret or feel weak about what is happening. Having the image of the victim is what she wants and acting seriously is how she gets it. Moreover, when she fixes her eyes in her head, the use of the word 'Head' in a way transmits to the fact that she is thinking about what happens and what she did is premeditated.

I highlighted all the pronouns where Shamela talks about herself in this passage and believe that is says a lot about the image that the author wants us to have from her. In total, there are 19 times in which Shamela talks about herself "I" or something that she possesses "my", "mine" in roughly 10 lines of text!. The repetition of the pronoun "I" and those related to one's self prove that Shamela is pro-active, everything depends on how she behaves and what she wants, conveying an image of her as egocentric, selfish and self-centered. Thus, comparing to Letter XXV from Pamela, passage 1, there is a lot of differences in this matter. Even though there are a lot of "I"s and "My"s, they are used in trivial sentences. In Shamela, it emphasizes how much she leads in comparison to Pamela, where the protagonist is depicted as very shy, polite, kind, mature and discrete.

The use of the word "poor" to describe Mr. B is oxymoronic knowing that he is the one who is the richest, and wealthiest in this novel. Shamela employs "poor" to talk about her master in a very sarcastic way as to mock him and to show how pityful he could be and that he is vulnerable and fragile in terms of love and relationships. Through this word, she ultimately breaks the image of her hierarchich superior master and the relationship of authority and respect towards him and renders him nothing but a poor lover who tries.

In this letter to her mother, as we said in the analysis of the metonymy, that Pamela talks about Mr. B as the "worst Heart in the World". I believe that, even though this is an expression full of anger, shock and hatered, it hides a lot of love and romance. The use of the word-organ "Heart" to talk about her Master has a lot of significance. In fact, Heart is with a capital H, as if it was a proper noun, as if "Heart" = Mr.B. He is "a Heart", and undoubtedly the heart is also synonym of love, sentiments, emotions and attachment. Yes, the heart (love) hurts a lot, as she accompanies it with the superlatif "the worst" to say that she fears and hates him but one could not hate and despise someone that much if there's no affection towards him at the beginning to increase that deception over him.

Another thing that could be interesting to see is that she sends this letter to her mother, her confident, her "human diary", she constructs her personality from these letters and this letter could in a very implicit way declare a sympathy, or native love between each other in unfavorable events and circumstances. Thus, why do we focus on the superlatif "the worst" when He is the "Heart"?

This little sentence shows that Mr. B keeps on holding Pamela after she faints. This could have two meanings:

1. The first meaning is very explicit and direct. It could mean that Mr.B is so determined on taking advantage of Pamela and not let it go, even if this would mean that she would be hurt, wether it is emotionnally or physically. In very vulgar words, as if he is a rapist, and rapists has no pity on the victims.

2. Another meaning for this could be more implicit in behind the lines. We will then discover at the end of the novel that Mr.B will make some really big promises with Pamela so she conscents for their wedding. He is really devoted to her and it is not only physical. Thus, maybe holding her even when she falls and faints away could mean that he is a loyal lover, and he will love her and stay by her side, even when she falls and even she is not conscious. "for better or for worse".

In this excerpt, Fielding gets directly to the point. The part of this story is roughly all of these lines, only certain of them have been omitted. Fielding focuses on how awfully does Shamela behave and wants to exagerate it by not bearing in mind any other detail of what has happened in-between the incident. The simpler the message of the letter, the quicker and the more brutal the reader can get angry at Pamela and culpabilize her. In comparison, the first excerpts is two pages long, considerably longer than this one. Pamela is more discrete, wise and polite. She narrates the whole story with details and proves how kind she is, that means that she has no guilt at all in the incident but rather Mr.B has taken advantage of her.

The purpose of comparing these two excerpts is to confront both ways of conveying the story in order to get to the point of the author.

Fielding wants to convey a message that people who are rich are not guilty, self-centered people but rather the lower class ones are responsible of taking advantage of them and getting to their money by awful ways. It is implicitely the story of Fielding’s family.

Richardson, however, wants to prove that women are often not respected, and this disrespect does to the highest level of intimacy and rape and that people who have a lot of money can do anything and would do anything to achieve their goals.

We can also link this comparison of two excerpts to a comparison of the passages in which the mother of Pamela replies to her. In Fielding, Pamela's mother always warns her to pay attention and to keep an eye on Squire Booby as they call him and to try to have things in her advantage because he is well of financially. For Richardson, Pamela's mother replies to her that she wants her first and foremost safe and secure and asks her to not derive in trivial activities and stay polite.

We can also construct a comparison between the personalities of Mrs. Jervis in the two texts. In the first one, Mrs. Jervis is the confident of Pamela in the sense that they converse about deep subjects and tell each other confidential secrets about their personal and professional lives. Mrs. Jervis is very mature in Richardson’s. However, in Fielding, Mrs. Jervis is also responsible and guilty, she shows no respect for her master and enters into the machiavelic plan with Pamela. The term “violent” as described to the laugh refers to how vulgar and disrespectful the maids can be towards their master. Thus, a definition for "violent" in the OED is as follows: Of a movement or action: involving or characterized by great physical force or strength and (typically) speed; not gentle or moderate. “Violent.” Oxford English Dictionary, www.oed.com/view/Entry/223641?rskey=uQ2Q29&result=1&isAdvanced=false#eid.

All the highlighted words that aren't annotated are from the vocabulary of acting: "as if", "pretend", "counterfeit", "better acted than your Part"

These expressions and words are from the vocabulary of the acting theme. Shamela, as described by Fielding, is the master of hyprocrisy and bad intentions. Everything she says is about wearing a “mask” in front of her Master to make him feel like she is the victim. Thus, she uses twice in her letter the verb ‘pretended’. In her letters to her mother, she explicitely explains al of her plans and intentions, which is also what the readers perceive from her. Clearly, the intention of the author is to descredit the real guilt of the Squire and the vulnerability and innocence of Pamela, from the original Novel.

Richardson constructs an image of Mr.B as the bad person, the guilty, awful and shameful person who uses money and authority to get what he wants and manipulate others who are at his service. Richardson takes the ‘Master-Servant’ relationship as a basis for what is happening; That Mr.B has the authority to shut them women up after what happened and not let what happen break his image of a good man of high descendance. Thus, he threatens the two maids to stay calm and silent about what happens. In the second excerpt, Fielding uses the way of sarcasm, irony to mock how much innocent and candid is the Master. In fact, even when talking about the Master, it helps shape both images of Pamela and Mr.B. “The poor Booby frightened” serves a direct critic of Pamela, which in a way gives pity from the readers towards the Squire who was afraid to hurt Shamela.

Richardson uses a metonymy; "The worst Heart in the World"; from the mouth of Pamela to talk about Mr. B. This figure of speech is important as it gives us a first insight of what will happen next in the incident of this excerpts. Comparing Pamela and Shamela, we can cleary see that Pamela is frightened and dissents what Mr. B is about to do. Thus, Shamela laughs about it and prepares a plan to mock Mr. B and act as if she is the victim about it.

One definition for "unlocked" in the OED is: (transitive. figurative.) To cause to open or become receptive; to allow to reveal what lies within. Also occasionally intransitive. “Unlocked.” Oxford English Dictionary, www.oed.com/view/Entry/215203?rskey=CLizZl&result=1&isAdvanced=false#eid.

Shamela is the one who welcomes in a way Mr. B (Squire Booby), she wanted it and she is the one responsible of what happened. The symbolic meaning of an unlocked door means oppenness and welcomeness. Fielding waives at the fact, that from the first line, Shamela was knowing what she is doing, what she is planning. In other words, she is responsible of what happened and not him, she is reactive and not responsive.

Words to confront: "in a rich silk and silver Morning Gown", "I'll do you no harm, if you forbear this Noise; but otherwise take what follows"; vs. "The poor Booby frightened out", "in his Shirt", "pale and trembling".

If we confront these words from the first excerpts from Pamela and the ones of Shamela, we can see that there is a lot to say about how each of the authors perceive the hierarchy, wealthy people and thus their representations.

First, let us talk about his clothes and how they are described: “rich silk and silver morning gown” highlights in a very strong manner the wealth of the Master by his clothes. The use of the adjective ‘rich’ can only serve as an important remark that the author wants us to imagine about his personality and what matters here; ‘silk and silver morning gown’, dressed as someone from the upper class in the society because this is who he is in the eyes of Richardson. His clothes represent him and reveals his personality and who we should always remember that he is. In comparison, the clothes from the second excerpt, Fielding does not take much into account what he is dressed, he just uses the phrase “in his Shirt”, as simply as possible, there is no wealth, or prosperity transmitted by what he is wearing.

For Fielding, it is not important what he wears and also shows in a way that he is humble and modest, which contributes to representing an image of the Squire as an ‘innocent’ in the story and Shamela, as a “Shame” on Pamela for transfigurating and deforming the story as she did in the initial novel.

According to the Oxford Dictionary, the definition of well-bred, when meant of a person, is : Of a person: from a highly regarded family; demonstrating good upbringing or education through courteous or refined speech and behaviour.

"well-bred, adj." OED Online, Oxford University Press, December 2019, www.oed.com/view/Entry/227079. Accessed 7 February 2020.