money and dispensing affection where the same thing. His attempts to `monetize' affection lead only to the ruination of his daughter, to their disastrous marriages and finally to his alarming end. He would have been horrified to have been compared to Vautrin and yet his words to Delphine: "Money is life itself" echo those which the criminal tells Rastignac. According to Lucienne Frappier-Mazur: "Money is the great leveller in this novel." He goes on to explain how its ubiquitous presence in
The Profound Ideas of Honore de Balzac's Pere Goriot Honore de Balzac published Pere Goriot in 1834 (1), one of the outstanding novels in his panoramic study of Parisian life, the Human Comedy. Throughout Pere Goriot, Balzac's narrator oscillates between the roles of social historian and moralist. Although the presence of both observer and commentator may initially seem mutually exclusive, it also is a large part of what makes this novel interesting and entertaining. Balzac's readers, as flesh-and-blood
(Nanjing Requiem). The Second Sino-Japanese War is considered to be the largest war Asian war that took place in the twentieth-century between the Republic of China and Empire of Japan (Second Sino-Japanese War). The story of Anling Gao and Minnie Vautrin was in fact real and true. Their story has been shared through Jin’s novel Nanjing Requiem, and Minnie’s own diaries which were published after her death. During the time of the Second Sino-Japanese War China was destroyed and ripped apart as the
Honore de Balzac and Gustave Flaubert's Writings on Capitalism The Revolution in France, during the 19th century, gave power to the people for the first time in France. French citizens now had faith that they could form a strong, independent country; but what they did not realize was that there must be some form of financial or monetary backbone present for a country to excel on its own in the modern world. This gave way to the rise of capitalism and all its follies, debaucheries, and mainly
She had three primary sources: John Rabe, a German businessman; Robert Wilson, an American surgeon; and Wilhelmina Vautrin, an American missionary professor. The granddaughter of John Rabe, Ursula Reinhardt, gave Chang detailed descriptions of Rabe's life and copies of his reports and diaries, which spanned over thousands of pages. Early biological information on Robert
While reading your book, I learned so many things that happened in World War II that I didn't know about. I always thought that Japan was swept up in the war by Germany, but how wrong was I. "The Rape of Nanking" opened my eyes to how the Japanese thought about other ethnicities and how they felt that they were superior. I learned the treacherous they did to the Chinese people. I thought that some of the things you wrote were exaggerations, but with the pictures you provide, made me realize that
suffering redeems the unfortunate young dreamer. Crime and Punishment is similar in many ways to Balzac's Pere Goriot, especially in respect to questions of morality. In Balzac, the master-criminal Vautrin lives by an amoral code similar to Raskolnikov's theory of Great Men--unrestrained by conscience, Vautrin holds that laws are for the weak, and those clever enough to realize this may overstep any boundaries they wish and dominate the rest of mankind. But where Balzac's characters act on this idea without