Émile Zola

Emile Zola was a French Novelist, who wrote plays, essays, short stories and novels, in the late 19th century. Here is a background and synopsis of Emile Zola. Zola was born in Paris in 1840 and died at age 62 in 1902. He is one of the most famous and controversial figures ever know on the French literary scene. Zola was noted for his theories of naturalism, and he is considered the founder of the Naturalist Movement and was called ‘Father of Naturalism, in which his works consisted of fictional portrayal of real life of the scientific method. “Along with his job as a clerk in a publishing firm, Zola started writing articles on current affairs for numerous periodicals,” (Emile Zola Biography). Emile had a passion for writing and he worked as a freelance journalist while developing his fiction. In 1865, Emile published his first novel, La Confession de Claude. This work caused Zola to lose his job at the time in a publishing company called Louis Christophe Francois Hachette because it was an autobiographical work about a man who falls in love with a sex worker. Zola…

Zola continues in his letter by describing to the readers the story from the beginning, where Dreyfus was arrested and immediately was “clamoring his innocence…and that is how the investigation proceeded…shrouded in mystery and a wealth of the wildest expedients.” Zola’s letter lays out all the proof the government and army had to accuse Dreyfus and it is just not sufficient enough to imprison someone. Throughout the letter, proof of Dreyfus’ innocence is never brought, rather a compilation of…

In the novel “Nana”, Zola depicted a picture of naturalistic fictional word in which the character’s surrounding and social environment was described. Through the incidences happened on those characters, it lets us to figure out insights and beliefs about French Society in 19th century. The conflict between the religious mysticism and sensuality is the point of discussion in “Nana”. Sexual empowerment and desires were heavily emphasized in the novel as the sensorial images and descriptions…

adapting new ideas to these developments. The novel “Au Bonheur des Dames” or “The Ladies Paradise” authored by Émile Zola prominently displays many of the modern changes that occurred in Paris’s physical and social landscape in a department store setting. The Ladies Paradise showcases the progressive changes to the business model and infrastructure within Paris which enables the store to overcome its competitors and become a spectacle of Paris, The success of Mouret’s newly developed business…

In the Pulitzer prize winning novel by Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and Steel is written to answer a question posed by a New Guinea man named Yali. Yali’s question was “Why is it that you whites people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own?” 1 (GGS page 14). Basicly this question in asking why the white Europeans able to have all the cargo1 (What is Cargo) when blacks from New Guinea did not make or have much cargo. Diamond writes…

Emile Zola details the lives of middle and lower class individuals in the fictional novel Germinal. In doing so, he reveals much about the effects class and gender have on people 's lives in mid nineteenth century France. According to Zola and the information contained in Germinal in mid nineteenth century Europe class and gender were determinants for how individuals and families behaved, influencing every part of a person’s life. In the novel, class and gender influence minor day to day…

Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! tells the gripping tale of Alexandra, a farmer on the Nebraska plains and her ordeals as she faces obstacles with her farm life and personal life. The novel expands into further character plots, however, specifically that of Emil and Marie, Alexandra’s brother and his married love interest, respectively. Ending in tragedy, Cather memorializes them with this passage: “But the stained, slippery grass, the darkened mulberries, told only half the story. Above Marie and…

Twenty-four-year-old Christopher McCandless was a strong adventurer who disappeared after graduating college to go on a backpacking trip which ended up in the Alaskan wilderness. Chris McCandless became Alex Supertramp because he wanted to explore the unexplored and discover a life without responsibility, possessions, people, money, lies, and abusive relationships. He severely wanted to prove that one’s life does not require road maps and plans but that one could be perfectly happy as a free man…

In the three novels, shelter plays a role in defining the main characters in the novel. The way characters act towards shelter, the condition of the shelter, and the actions that happen inside the shelter give it a symbolic meaning that relates to the main character’s personality and social life. In the novel, “Boys in the Boat”, shelter symbolizes the hard work ahead of Joe and the status of his family relationship. Joe, the main character, often lives in unfinished or very small…

In Sean Penn’s film “Into the Wild”, Christopher McCandless, is not a hero. Throughout the movie there are times he can be more of an antagonist: influencing the people he meets to see their own lives through the same lenses he views his own. Furthermore, throughout the film Chris struggles with two evils. He faces the evil in society of Man vs. Man. The constant need for materialistic possessions, success, wealth, and prominence. The struggle against power, control, and laws which govern our…