The Conquest of Plassans PDF Émile Zola

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Marthe is presented as weak-minded, yearning, passive, and unfulfilled. She is, as Faujas rightly surmises, ready to be lured into religion, a focal point for her hysterical tendencies and thwarted sexuality. Marthe’s faith is obsessive and erotic, and she becomes Faujas’s creature in ways that alienate her from her husband and children and help further the schemes of Faujas and Félicité.

Faujas conquers the town through religion, and he conquers it through the women, first by encouraging them to donate to a project, a religious centre, the ‘Work of the Virgin’, for the protection of working-class young girls, and then by using his hold over the women to attain power over their husbands, who are, by a symmetrical process, encouraged to start up a youth club. One of the great literary figures Zola evokes in The Conquest of Plassans is Molière’s classic figure of Tartuffe, a religious hypocrite who poses as a man of f

• Book Name: The Conquest of Plassans pdf
• Author Name Émile Zola
• Product Type pdf,epub Digital Book
• Added Year 2014

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