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Hypocrites Love Money, No Way

Posted on:2012-09-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y S FengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330335976160Subject:Comparative Literature and World Literature
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Honore·de·Balzac (1799~1850) was the most prominent French critical realist writer in 19th century.He devoted his life to writing an"Encyclopedia"about French society—"Human Comedy"and portrayed the financiers, lawyers, free artists, journalists, the poor, prostitutes, loan sharks and so on. All the characters are more than 2,400.He provided readers a French'social'by more than 90 works, particularly realistic history of excellence in'the upper classes' of Paris. " Balzac gives a description of an ugly soul who were chasing a hideous wealth in the temptation of money through the"human comedy"and expressed the human virtues that were dominated by material desires, which laced into the evil of capitalist money.Based on the study on Balzac's values about money, I explore the causes of his financial outlook, combined with《Le Père Goriot》,《Eugénie Grandet》,《La Maison Nucingen》,《Illusions perdues》《,Le Colonel Chabert》and discuss Balzac's conception of critical values about money which influences people'humanity from the author's personal experience.There are four text parts:1. Introduction—investigations of studying history of academic part, It mainly discusses the status of domestic , foreign research about Balzac , value and purposes of writing this article.2.The mentality of Balzac—to form process of Balzac's attitudes towards money, it analyzes how did Balzac's concept about money generate and form from four aspects which are the writer's time of living,financial education of parents, his failure business and the secretar of French history.3.the world of Balzac's works—money and people, it elaborates the people who make a profit for their luxury lives In these documents ,the accumulating money by stingy nature, financial fraud for making money, using a woman to climb , marriaging with property owners, deprive others'heritage, using religion to deceive money and the capitalist class beat the feudal nobles are referred to,to analyze the way of making money and the losing nature of people . Balzac describes vicissitudes of people's life under the desire of money for us and people who get more money by corrupting moral, emotional and even sacrifice for their family trade. All reveal that money under the capitalist civilization corrupted humanity.4. Balzac's warning—It discusses the influence and significance about Balzac's concept of money in today's society. In modern society ,because of the money's role permeating in all aspects of life, some people have lost human nature , breaking the moral bottom line. And they speed up to plunder nature. This part of paper will combine the history and reality, studying Balzac's concept of money on the current literature of revelation. It intended to draw back the people's attention in the human nature's loser who only liked money, and appealed to pay more attention to hot spots which are ecological issues in recent years.
Keywords/Search Tags:Balzac, Values about money, Realism
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