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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Clarissa'' shares the same premise with Richardson's previous work, ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', only except many readers find this to be better written and an {{Aesop}} that still valuable nowadays than the latter.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Clarissa'' shares the same premise with Richardson's previous work, ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', only except many readers find this to be better written and than the latter, with an {{Aesop}} that [[ValuesResonance is still valuable nowadays than the latter.
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* CompleteMonster: The Dad. Read below to find out why.
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* CompleteMonster: The Dad. Read above to find out why.

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* CompleteMonster: The Dad. Read above below to find out why.

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* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: It's about a little girl suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and her entire family is complicit in covering it up. Kind of hard to avoid this.


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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: It's about a little girl suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and her entire family is complicit in covering it up. Kind of hard to avoid this.
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*TheWoobie: Clarissa. Her entire plight with being sexually abused and the adults all around her doing nothing about it can make you wish you can just jump into the comic and rescue her.
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!! The webcomic:

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It has as large an audience as possible given its very bleak subject matter.
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: It's about a little girl suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and her entire family is complicit in covering it up. Kind of hard to avoid this.
* CompleteMonster: The Dad. Read above to find out why.

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice, or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women? Telling some harsh jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance, or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist? [[UndyingLoyalty Very attached to her friend]], or plainly [[LesYay in love]]?

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!! The novel:

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Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice, or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women? Telling some harsh jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance, or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist? [[UndyingLoyalty Very attached to her friend]], or plainly [[LesYay in love]]?
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice, or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women? Telling some harsh jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance, or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist? [[UndyingLOyalty Very attached to her friend]], or plainly [[LesYay in love]]?

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice, or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women? Telling some harsh jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance, or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist? [[UndyingLOyalty [[UndyingLoyalty Very attached to her friend]], or plainly [[LesYay in love]]?

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!!The webcomic
* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It has as large an audience as possible given its very bleak subject matter.
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: It's about a little girl suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and her entire family is complicit in covering it up. Kind of hard to avoid this.

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!!The webcomic
* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It has as large an audience as possible given its very bleak subject matter.
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: It's about a little girl suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and her entire family is complicit in covering it up. Kind of hard to avoid this.

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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It has as large an audience as possible given its very bleak subject matter.

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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It has as large an audience as possible given its very bleak subject matter.matter.
* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: It's about a little girl suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her father, and her entire family is complicit in covering it up. Kind of hard to avoid this.

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!!The novel



* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It has as large an audience as possible given its very bleak subject matter.



* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Clarissa'' shares the same premise with Richardson's previous work, ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', only except many readers find this to be better written and an {{Aesop}} that still valuable nowadays than the latter.

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* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Clarissa'' shares the same premise with Richardson's previous work, ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', only except many readers find this to be better written and an {{Aesop}} that still valuable nowadays than the latter.latter.
!!The webcomic
* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It has as large an audience as possible given its very bleak subject matter.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: A modern viewer can't help but wonder what happens during the story, and before it, to Anna Howe, the spirited, funny and fiercely loyal girl who has self-worth and [[TheGhost Mr Hickman]], the fiance who loves her, respects her, and seems to see right through her sometimes abrasive behavior that she is awesome.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: A modern viewer can't help but wonder what happens during the story, and before it, to Anna Howe, the spirited, funny and fiercely loyal girl who has self-worth and [[TheGhost Mr Hickman]], the fiance who loves her, respects her, and seems to see right through her sometimes abrasive behavior that she is awesome.awesome.
* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Clarissa'' shares the same premise with Richardson's previous work, ''Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded'', only except many readers find this to be better written and an {{Aesop}} that still valuable nowadays than the latter.
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* AudienceAlienatingPremise: It has as large an audience as possible given its very bleak subject matter.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: Lovelace. Some people wrote to ask a happy ending for Clarissa and him. He had to keep adding new bits with each edition to highlight what a hideous person Lovelace was.

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* DracoInLeatherPants: Lovelace. Some people wrote to ask a happy ending for Clarissa and him. He The author had to keep adding new bits with each edition to highlight what a hideous person Lovelace was.
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* DracoInLeatherPants: Lovelace. Some people wrote to ask a happy ending for Clarissa and him.

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* DracoInLeatherPants: Lovelace. Some people wrote to ask a happy ending for Clarissa and him. He had to keep adding new bits with each edition to highlight what a hideous person Lovelace was.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice, or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women ? Telling some harsh jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance, or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist ? [[UndyingLOyalty Very attached to her friend]], or plainly [[LesYay in love]] ?
** Mrs. Harlowe: sweet woman under the power of her would-be-dictator husband, a well-intentioned but traumatized victim of DomesticAbuse, or a prone-to-{{Wangst}}, weak, pathetic ManipulativeBastard [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] ?

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice, or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women ? women? Telling some harsh jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance, or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist ? misandrist? [[UndyingLOyalty Very attached to her friend]], or plainly [[LesYay in love]] ?
love]]?
** Mrs. Harlowe: sweet woman under the power of her would-be-dictator husband, a well-intentioned but traumatized victim of DomesticAbuse, or a prone-to-{{Wangst}}, weak, pathetic ManipulativeBastard [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] ? mother]]?
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** Mrs Harlowe : sweet woman under the power of her would-be-dictator husband, a well-intentionned but traumatized victim of DomesticAbuse, or a prone-to-{{Wangst}}, weak, pathetic ManipulativeBastard [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] ?

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** Mrs Harlowe : Mrs. Harlowe: sweet woman under the power of her would-be-dictator husband, a well-intentionned well-intentioned but traumatized victim of DomesticAbuse, or a prone-to-{{Wangst}}, weak, pathetic ManipulativeBastard [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] ?
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice, or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women ? Telling some harsh jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance, or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist ? [[UndyingLOyalty Very attached to her friend]], or plainly [[LesYay in love]] ?

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice, or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women ? Telling some harsh jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance, or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist ? [[UndyingLOyalty Very attached to her friend]], or plainly [[LesYay in love]] ?

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if he feels guilt he doesn\'t count


* EnsembleDarkhorse: A modern viewer can't help but wonder what happens during the story, and before it, to Anna Howe, the spirited, funny and fiercely loyal girl who has self-worth and [[TheGhost Mr Hickman]], the fiance who loves her, respects her, and seems to see right through her sometimes abrasive behavior that she is awesome.
* CompleteMonster: After a certain amount of horribleness, anyone can end up reading a tearful ItsAllMyFault as a "Now I am whining about how my behavior caused me to feel guilty, which just spoils my fun !". Sorry, Lovelace, but ''that noise'' was the viewer sympathy disappearing.

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* EnsembleDarkhorse: A modern viewer can't help but wonder what happens during the story, and before it, to Anna Howe, the spirited, funny and fiercely loyal girl who has self-worth and [[TheGhost Mr Hickman]], the fiance who loves her, respects her, and seems to see right through her sometimes abrasive behavior that she is awesome. \n* CompleteMonster: After a certain amount of horribleness, anyone can end up reading a tearful ItsAllMyFault as a "Now I am whining about how my behavior caused me to feel guilty, which just spoils my fun !". Sorry, Lovelace, but ''that noise'' was the viewer sympathy disappearing.

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women ? Doing some hard jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist ? [[UndyingLOyalty Very attached to her friend]] or plainly [[LesYay in love]] ?
** Mrs Harlowe : sweet woman under the power of her would-be-dictator husband, a well-intentionned victim of DomesticAbuse, or a prone-to-{{Wangst}}, weak, pathetic ManipulativeBastard [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] ?

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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice advice, or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women ? Doing Telling some hard harsh jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance fiance, or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist ? [[UndyingLOyalty Very attached to her friend]] friend]], or plainly [[LesYay in love]] ?
** Mrs Harlowe : sweet woman under the power of her would-be-dictator husband, a well-intentionned but traumatized victim of DomesticAbuse, or a prone-to-{{Wangst}}, weak, pathetic ManipulativeBastard [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] ? ?
* DracoInLeatherPants: Lovelace. Some people wrote to ask a happy ending for Clarissa and him.



* CompleteMonster: After a certain amount of horribleness, anyone can end up reading a tearful ItsAllMyFault as a "Now I am whining about how my behavior caused me to feel guilty, which just spoils my fun !".

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* CompleteMonster: After a certain amount of horribleness, anyone can end up reading a tearful ItsAllMyFault as a "Now I am whining about how my behavior caused me to feel guilty, which just spoils my fun !". Sorry, Lovelace, but ''that noise'' was the viewer sympathy disappearing.

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** Mrs Harlowe : sweet woman under the power of her would-be-dictator husband, a well-intentionned victim of DomesticAbuse, or a prone-to-{{Wangst}}, weak, pathetic ManipulativeBastard [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] ?

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** Mrs Harlowe : sweet woman under the power of her would-be-dictator husband, a well-intentionned victim of DomesticAbuse, or a prone-to-{{Wangst}}, weak, pathetic ManipulativeBastard [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] ??
* EnsembleDarkhorse: A modern viewer can't help but wonder what happens during the story, and before it, to Anna Howe, the spirited, funny and fiercely loyal girl who has self-worth and [[TheGhost Mr Hickman]], the fiance who loves her, respects her, and seems to see right through her sometimes abrasive behavior that she is awesome.
* CompleteMonster: After a certain amount of horribleness, anyone can end up reading a tearful ItsAllMyFault as a "Now I am whining about how my behavior caused me to feel guilty, which just spoils my fun !".
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* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Anna Howe, devoted friend who gives unreasonable advice or [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] coming from Richardson's subconscious to tell him how people should react to the condition of women ? Doing some hard jokes about some men and trying to hide her feelings for her fiance or hardened JerkassWoobie misandrist ? [[UndyingLOyalty Very attached to her friend]] or plainly [[LesYay in love]] ?
** Mrs Harlowe : sweet woman under the power of her would-be-dictator husband, a well-intentionned victim of DomesticAbuse, or a prone-to-{{Wangst}}, weak, pathetic ManipulativeBastard [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] ?

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