欧也妮葛朗台英语介绍.doc

The love of money and the passionate pursuit of it, studied in detail in the person of Grandet, is seen asa dynamic force in society. But the dynamics that infects all the characters (except Eugenie and her mother) who are after the hand of rich heiress has an ugly face. Grandet is totally insensitive to the anguish of his daughter and, of course, his wife. Not once do his habitual expressions of greed and avarice turn into the lineaments of thought and conscience. All that mattered was the hoard of gold and if his own flesh and blood suffered because of that obsession, it was just too bad. Grandet is an avaricious man and it is avarice in its worst form that surfaces when he is faced with the prospect of his daughter's marriage and the gold snatched away from him. But Balzac doesn't tell us why. He doesn't have his characters examining, dissecting and explaining themselves from breakfast soliloquies to evening meditations on this and that. He has no time for such nonsense because he had a vision of the world based on what he saw, observed and experienced. Eug é nie Grandet (1833) isa novel by Honor é de Balzac about miserliness, and how it is bequeathed from the father to the daughter, Eug é nie, through her unsatisfying love attachment with her cousin. As is usual with Balzac, all the characters in the novel are fully realized. Balzac conceived his grand project, The edy, while writing Eug é nie Grandet and incorporated it into edie by revising the names of some of the characters in the second edition. Money and its miseries RAVI VYAS "... the only god that anyone believes in nowadays - Money in all its power." Honore De Balzac: Eugenie Grandet MAY be it is the English Channel that has made all the difference! While the English have developed little taste for ideas disguised as literature -not much for ideas at all- the French have done even less for creative work without theories to support it. The literary intellectual has almost no public role in England unless