ESSAY ON: Emile Zola/Nana

Number of Pages 7

This research paper: A 7 page essay that discusses how Emile Zola expects the reader to perceive the character if his heroine in Nana. The writer argues that Nana is Emile Zola's expose of the decadence of France's late Second Empire period and that it may seem, at first glance, to be a nineteenth century version of Sex in the City, as his heroine is rapacious, a sexually amoral creature who is the inevitable result of a family that was ravaged by alcoholism and abuse. The context of the novel makes it clear that Zola portrays Nana as an indictment against late nineteenth century French society and the societal structures that spawned and shaped her to be an archetypal destructive force for evil rather than an actual person. No additional sources cited.


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