Jacques the Fatalist: And His Master PDF Denis Diderot

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Jacques’ response is to assert the contrary, to claim equality and demand to be treated with appropriate respect. The context may seem trivial but the issue is not, and the figure of the servant asserts (as does Beaumarchais’ Figaro) a rejection of any social order which defines an individual’s worth by his social position.

This quarrel between Jacques and his master constitutes a high point in the novel, where the fundamental rejection of the ancien régime is most apparent. The subsequent patching up of the quarrel (which as the Narrator points out has occurred a hundred times before) is just as significant. The intervention of the innkeeper’s wife restores the equality between Jacques and his master which constitutes the de facto reality of their day-to-day existence. Indeed equality is perhaps too mild a term since, as Jacques points out, he exercises effective control in the relationship, while his master has

• Book Name: Jacques the Fatalist: And His Master pdf
• Author Name Denis Diderot
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2006

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