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Article: Les ravages de la jalousie dans La Cousine Bette.(Critical essay)
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- Fu Jen Studies: literature & linguistics
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT
Jealousy is the passion that drives the title character in Balzac's La Cousine Bette. Bette indulges this passion by trying to take revenge against the Hulot family. But this unmarried woman is hardly the only jealous character in a novel that offers a veritable panorama of the possible incarnations of jealousy. This essay will first examine the jealousy that eventually drives Bette to extremes. Next it will tackle four types of jealousy related to love, as well as the thirst for revenge born of such jealousy. In conclusion, it will discuss Bette's role in the novel beyond her personal frustrations, and the phenomenon of deviations of desire ...
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