A Higher Judgment Outside Humanity

Title: A Higher Judgment Outside Humanity
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 1929 | Pages: 8.2 (approximately 235 words/page)

A Higher Judgment Outside Humanity

As we see the innocence of Clarissa’s character tragically lost, Samuel Richardson displays the destruction caused by youthful fancy and parental oppression. Through Clarissa’s death, the reader is left with an overwhelming feeling towards Clarissa’s virtue as the epitome of goodness that Richardson wishes us to revere for its constancy. However, because of the self-willed nature of her untimely demise, the text sheds light to the inhumanity of bearing such ideological thoughts …showed first 75 words of 1929 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1929 total…of pulling on the reader’s heart strings to emotionally connect with Clarissa, when he writes her separating herself from humanity; she becomes a simple character in a carefully crafted morality play. For Richardson, it seems female identity is based solely upon her virtue and maintaining it, something modern readers cannot fully appreciate. And even in his text, Richardson shows through Clarissa inevitable death, that one cannot base a corporeal existence solely upon ideological concerns.

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