The Deserted Woman Balzac

In The Deserted Woman This analysis will explore how the characters, settings, and situations in The Deserted Woman demonstrate the social concerns of Paris during the nineteenth century, including how it reflects and influenced the culture of the time. The French Revolution of the late 18th century promises a revolution that was inspired by and based on the hope of liberty, fraternity, and equality. However, the overthrow of the aristocracy merely replaced the corrupt old guard with a elite group of leaders who were as corrupt as those they had replaced. As Villon states, “The overthrow soon revealed itself as exclusively the victory of a small part of this ‘estate’, as the conquest of the political power by the socially privileged sections of it, i.e., the propertied bourgeoisie rather than by the masses as a whole”. Balzac was mortified that where once sat arist

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arx’s own devastating portrayal of the regime of Louis Philippe”. It is not only Balzac’s realistic depiction of the politics and economics of his era that provided such an influence on and reflected his own culture of nineteenth century France. This power also stems from his ability to create realistic characterizations in a manner that accurately portrays the different classes of French at the time. Nevertheless, we find that all of Balzac’s characters whether they are an aristocrat or a chamber maid have a purpose and point to their existence in his works. One of Oscar Wilde’s characters in The Decay of Lying comments on this quality of Balzac’s, “The difference between such a book as M. Zola’s L’Assommoir and Balzac’s Illusions Perdues is the difference between unimaginative realism and imaginative reality. ‘All Balzac’s characters,’ said Baudelaire, ‘are gifted with the same ardour of life that animated himself. All his fictions are as deeply coloured as dreams. Each mind is a weapon loaded to the muzzle with will. The very scullions have genius’”. Gaston eventually becomes attracted to what this class of people consider scandalous and shocking, something they make vague references to over dinner. His boredom find
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Approximate Word count = 2394
Approximate Pages = 10 (250 words per page)