Introduction
This story is dated in the fall 1819 in Paris. The characters in this novel are very cosmopolitan. They come from everywhere and almost all social strata, plus all the ambitions and express themselves. In the pension of this dubious hostess what Vauquer, rub the residents and the neighborhood regulars who come here to take the dinner. The study of characters in Le Pere Goriot must therefore allow us to understand not only work but also attitudes of Parisian life in the first half of the 19th century. Here is an overview of the characters in this novel that explores the problem of success, by love and by any How else, whatever the price it costs.
I. The life and work of Balzac
1. The life of the author
2. His work
II. The characters of the novel
1. The characters of the pension
a. Residents internal
Goriot : Name inspired by a Goriot who really existed. When Balzac wrote the novel to 1828, where he lived he was a mysterious neighbor Goriot. There was another walking Goriot flour at Pontoise in France. It represents paternity. This is an annuitant of sixty nine years and also the oldest residents since 1813. His fortune and his income allowed him to live in an apartment on the first floor of the richest pension.
Eugene Rastignac : This character first appeared in La Peau de Chagrin where he woos a rich and pretty widow. In Le Pere Goriot, he is a young "ambitious" to be initiated by Ms. Beauseant, the Duchesse de Langeais, and Vautrin. It has a "southern face, light complexion, black hair, blue eyes ...." Her face is attractive and aristocratic manners make it elegant. View profile (P.76). He is a young area of Provence in Paris for his studies of law, and therefore make a fortune. In true social climber, he attended the Paris shows, games and pleasures. It fails to make a choice between Delphine he loves and Victorine Taillefer who is ready to be conquered. He will resist the proposal to satanic Vautrin, because he sees the work as the best way to success. He has a heart unlike daughters of Pere Goriot, on whom he will stay up until his death. Ms.
Vauquer: It is aged about 50 years. It is in harmony with the pension which she is the keeper. She has a past doubtful. Why she knows sexual stamina and strategy love? Was she a prostitute? What happened with her late husband? It seems old and she is fat.
Vautrin : This character would have existed with the name of Carlos Herrara Vautrin. Balzac thus was inspired by a real man to create it. Vautrin, his name is John Collins. In the novel, he is also nicknamed "Cheat Death." He has forty years. He pretends to be a former merchant and searches in the past people as he seems to have "deep in his life a mystery carefully hidden." It is a rebel who trusted his strength. Balzac describes as Sphinx, a monstrous creature man and beast both often compared to a beast with his hairy chest like the back of a bear, claws of steel, eyes like those of a wildcat.
Himself he treats people and animals think we have to eat like spiders. Victorine Taillefer
: His mother died four years ago, and his father was disinherited. Characterized by patience and resignation. She is one of the characters in spontaneous desires, and of the passions and desires intrinsic. She has a filial love for his father but reviled by him, she tries to be loved by Rastignac. His desire is sublime, but it is powerless to achieve. She suffers from her beautiful feelings of loyalty and nobility of heart, that her friends avoid dehumanization.
His wealth is the result of any crimes Taillefer, and the murder of his brother. Victorine victim subjectively, his innocence makes objectively guilty. She is the adopted daughter of Ms. Couture.
Mr. Poiret: He is the type of job, the judicial bureaucracy. He was a passionate and a bit stupid, so it is often compared to a "Ass" or a fruit, leek (an asparagus of the poor).
For references see pages Hachette publishing.
Miss Michonneau : This girl whose "white light gives cold" and that seems to be a secret agent on duty, assisted by Poiret who completes it.
Sylvie : Known colloquially the "big sylvie" it is a social servant a little insane.
Christophe : Like Sylvia, he is a servant in the pension. His big heart made him the father took pity and lent him Goriot even pennies.
b. Residents External
Bianchon : is the doctor of the Comedie Humaine. A recurring character. Here is a medical student and is friends Rastignac
Ms. Couture: That is also a victim of society, but it is religion. We are told that she had a "white disease," sadness. Tawny blond hair, a slim waist and gray eyes. (See p.76)
2. The characters of Parisian life
a. Ms. Beauseant
Unable to act with an animal savagery in this world of Paris, she was defeated by other, less scrupulous it. Besides, she is a distant relative, a cousin of Rastignac, which takes it under his wing and decides to take charge of his worldly education. It fills the void with the Marquis d'Ajuda Pinto
b. Ms. Anastasia Restaud
(See p.46) It is the other daughter of Father Goriot, the eldest. She was married to Count Restaud. She has two illegitimate children His absolute love for her lover, Maxims of Trailles lead to her loss, for because of him, she was implicated in debts it can not honor and causes the ruin of his father.
c. Ms. Delphine Nucingen
One of Goriot's two daughters, the youngest. It is a poor creature overwhelmed by misfortune marriage. Nucingen married to the banker, it will be a woman disappointed, frustrated, because for her life was anything but monotonous home dad, but the pleasure of the toilet and buying.
d. Other Characters: Baron Nucingen : "This man is a pig," a monster, a miser and he speculated. It has a life of profit, which excluded women. (See p. 302)
Gobseck : It is the perfect type of the usurer. He is a Jew. Ms.
Langeais : This is the friend of Madame Beauseant . From
Marsay belongs to the gentlemen of Paris, he was the lover of Mrs. Beauseant Rastignac that will rid him. The Duchess of Carigliano is a worldly woman, she will hold the ball where Rastignac will experience the Parisian world. It also has the character Gondureau, a police official, and he unmasks Vautrin which is actually a convict who escaped from prison in Toulon, where he had the nickname of trumpet-death .
3. The characters in the campaign
has . The sisters Rastignac
Laure and Agathe: The sisters of Eugene de Rastignac, aged respectively eighteen and seventeen years. They sound coming from the poor gentry and must, in the words of Vautrin 'do as they can. "
b . The mother of Rastignac
Their mother has consented to sacrifices to send her son the money he needs. She wants to raise, as Madame Couture, his children to respect moral values.
There is also the aunt Marcillac, aunt Rastignac.
III. Balzac's characters and Spirit of the nineteenth century
48 characters of the human comedy through Father Goriot. And among these, there are others whose role is quite remarkable. This is the case of Ms. Couture, who is the widow of a commissary years of the Republic, Mr. Poiret who is a junior official.
The spirit of the nineteenth century is the money that God reigns in society. "Money, that's life," they say on page 246. The characters are all Goriot, near or far, bound by money. On the historical and social, this period is characterized by the rise of the bourgeoisie. If the bourgeoisie is somewhat excluded from political power during the Restoration (1814-1830), it does not hold unless the levers of the economy. The nineteenth century was also shown as Balzac time of annuitants.
Father Goriot was also enriched by speculation on the flour. He had kept his stock for resale at a higher price during the period of scarcity.
Conclusion This study is far from complete, but the choices we have made can at least guide the reader into this world - realistic - Created by the art of creating the characters of a novelist who does more on this plan. Knowing that he has created over a thousand characters, we know that Balzac had always pretend to compete with the registrar. And it seems he has not succeeded, it has not failed because some of his characters are in the memories of many generations of readers. The other success of Balzac is to have created a fictional world that has nothing to envy to the macrocosm. We will retain, at the end of the study, the analysis of characters allowed drilling update desires and motivations of the actions of any individual.
This story is dated in the fall 1819 in Paris. The characters in this novel are very cosmopolitan. They come from everywhere and almost all social strata, plus all the ambitions and express themselves. In the pension of this dubious hostess what Vauquer, rub the residents and the neighborhood regulars who come here to take the dinner. The study of characters in Le Pere Goriot must therefore allow us to understand not only work but also attitudes of Parisian life in the first half of the 19th century. Here is an overview of the characters in this novel that explores the problem of success, by love and by any How else, whatever the price it costs.
I. The life and work of Balzac
1. The life of the author
2. His work
II. The characters of the novel
1. The characters of the pension
a. Residents internal
Goriot : Name inspired by a Goriot who really existed. When Balzac wrote the novel to 1828, where he lived he was a mysterious neighbor Goriot. There was another walking Goriot flour at Pontoise in France. It represents paternity. This is an annuitant of sixty nine years and also the oldest residents since 1813. His fortune and his income allowed him to live in an apartment on the first floor of the richest pension.
Eugene Rastignac : This character first appeared in La Peau de Chagrin where he woos a rich and pretty widow. In Le Pere Goriot, he is a young "ambitious" to be initiated by Ms. Beauseant, the Duchesse de Langeais, and Vautrin. It has a "southern face, light complexion, black hair, blue eyes ...." Her face is attractive and aristocratic manners make it elegant. View profile (P.76). He is a young area of Provence in Paris for his studies of law, and therefore make a fortune. In true social climber, he attended the Paris shows, games and pleasures. It fails to make a choice between Delphine he loves and Victorine Taillefer who is ready to be conquered. He will resist the proposal to satanic Vautrin, because he sees the work as the best way to success. He has a heart unlike daughters of Pere Goriot, on whom he will stay up until his death. Ms.
Vauquer: It is aged about 50 years. It is in harmony with the pension which she is the keeper. She has a past doubtful. Why she knows sexual stamina and strategy love? Was she a prostitute? What happened with her late husband? It seems old and she is fat.
Vautrin : This character would have existed with the name of Carlos Herrara Vautrin. Balzac thus was inspired by a real man to create it. Vautrin, his name is John Collins. In the novel, he is also nicknamed "Cheat Death." He has forty years. He pretends to be a former merchant and searches in the past people as he seems to have "deep in his life a mystery carefully hidden." It is a rebel who trusted his strength. Balzac describes as Sphinx, a monstrous creature man and beast both often compared to a beast with his hairy chest like the back of a bear, claws of steel, eyes like those of a wildcat.
Himself he treats people and animals think we have to eat like spiders. Victorine Taillefer
: His mother died four years ago, and his father was disinherited. Characterized by patience and resignation. She is one of the characters in spontaneous desires, and of the passions and desires intrinsic. She has a filial love for his father but reviled by him, she tries to be loved by Rastignac. His desire is sublime, but it is powerless to achieve. She suffers from her beautiful feelings of loyalty and nobility of heart, that her friends avoid dehumanization.
His wealth is the result of any crimes Taillefer, and the murder of his brother. Victorine victim subjectively, his innocence makes objectively guilty. She is the adopted daughter of Ms. Couture.
Mr. Poiret: He is the type of job, the judicial bureaucracy. He was a passionate and a bit stupid, so it is often compared to a "Ass" or a fruit, leek (an asparagus of the poor).
For references see pages Hachette publishing.
Miss Michonneau : This girl whose "white light gives cold" and that seems to be a secret agent on duty, assisted by Poiret who completes it.
Sylvie : Known colloquially the "big sylvie" it is a social servant a little insane.
Christophe : Like Sylvia, he is a servant in the pension. His big heart made him the father took pity and lent him Goriot even pennies.
b. Residents External
Bianchon : is the doctor of the Comedie Humaine. A recurring character. Here is a medical student and is friends Rastignac
Ms. Couture: That is also a victim of society, but it is religion. We are told that she had a "white disease," sadness. Tawny blond hair, a slim waist and gray eyes. (See p.76)
2. The characters of Parisian life
a. Ms. Beauseant
Unable to act with an animal savagery in this world of Paris, she was defeated by other, less scrupulous it. Besides, she is a distant relative, a cousin of Rastignac, which takes it under his wing and decides to take charge of his worldly education. It fills the void with the Marquis d'Ajuda Pinto
b. Ms. Anastasia Restaud
(See p.46) It is the other daughter of Father Goriot, the eldest. She was married to Count Restaud. She has two illegitimate children His absolute love for her lover, Maxims of Trailles lead to her loss, for because of him, she was implicated in debts it can not honor and causes the ruin of his father.
c. Ms. Delphine Nucingen
One of Goriot's two daughters, the youngest. It is a poor creature overwhelmed by misfortune marriage. Nucingen married to the banker, it will be a woman disappointed, frustrated, because for her life was anything but monotonous home dad, but the pleasure of the toilet and buying.
d. Other Characters: Baron Nucingen : "This man is a pig," a monster, a miser and he speculated. It has a life of profit, which excluded women. (See p. 302)
Gobseck : It is the perfect type of the usurer. He is a Jew. Ms.
Langeais : This is the friend of Madame Beauseant . From
Marsay belongs to the gentlemen of Paris, he was the lover of Mrs. Beauseant Rastignac that will rid him. The Duchess of Carigliano is a worldly woman, she will hold the ball where Rastignac will experience the Parisian world. It also has the character Gondureau, a police official, and he unmasks Vautrin which is actually a convict who escaped from prison in Toulon, where he had the nickname of trumpet-death .
3. The characters in the campaign
has . The sisters Rastignac
Laure and Agathe: The sisters of Eugene de Rastignac, aged respectively eighteen and seventeen years. They sound coming from the poor gentry and must, in the words of Vautrin 'do as they can. "
b . The mother of Rastignac
Their mother has consented to sacrifices to send her son the money he needs. She wants to raise, as Madame Couture, his children to respect moral values.
There is also the aunt Marcillac, aunt Rastignac.
III. Balzac's characters and Spirit of the nineteenth century
48 characters of the human comedy through Father Goriot. And among these, there are others whose role is quite remarkable. This is the case of Ms. Couture, who is the widow of a commissary years of the Republic, Mr. Poiret who is a junior official.
The spirit of the nineteenth century is the money that God reigns in society. "Money, that's life," they say on page 246. The characters are all Goriot, near or far, bound by money. On the historical and social, this period is characterized by the rise of the bourgeoisie. If the bourgeoisie is somewhat excluded from political power during the Restoration (1814-1830), it does not hold unless the levers of the economy. The nineteenth century was also shown as Balzac time of annuitants.
Father Goriot was also enriched by speculation on the flour. He had kept his stock for resale at a higher price during the period of scarcity.
Conclusion This study is far from complete, but the choices we have made can at least guide the reader into this world - realistic - Created by the art of creating the characters of a novelist who does more on this plan. Knowing that he has created over a thousand characters, we know that Balzac had always pretend to compete with the registrar. And it seems he has not succeeded, it has not failed because some of his characters are in the memories of many generations of readers. The other success of Balzac is to have created a fictional world that has nothing to envy to the macrocosm. We will retain, at the end of the study, the analysis of characters allowed drilling update desires and motivations of the actions of any individual.
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