{"id":19202908,"date":"2017-03-27T18:17:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T15:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essayshark.com\/blog\/?p=19202908"},"modified":"2023-03-17T11:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T11:35:21","slug":"pere-goriot-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essayshark.com\/examples\/pere-goriot-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Pere Goriot Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class=\"es-post-quote\">Creating an outstanding literary analysis takes time, practice and skill. Liking the book you\u2019ve read is not enough \u2013 you need to understand the specific tools the author used for creating the effect and delivering the message. If you are not so sure about your analytical skills in literature, you can always take a look at our <em>Le Pere Goriot<\/em> analysis to get a better idea of how such papers should be written.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We remind you, however, that you aren\u2019t allowed to copy any of the information from our blog without proper references, since it will be considered as a violation of copyright law. We believe you don\u2019t even need to do so, since we have so many awesome articles and easy tips \u2013 you will catch your inspiration and start writing on your own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>How can you use this <em>Le Pere Goriot<\/em> analysis then? Here are just a few suggestions to start with. You can use it as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a structural template<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a source of ideas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>an example of academic language<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a source of analytical methods used in literature reviews<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, all of the variations are limited by your imagination and copyright laws. Check our blog for more awesome samples and articles about writing to boost your skills and grades.<\/div><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"es-post-paper\">\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>The Boardinghouse as a House of Mirrors in Balzac\u2019s Le P\u00e8re Goriot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Realism is the \u201cart of representing actuality,\u201d which Honor\u00e9 de Balzac successfully exploits in his novel Le P\u00e8re Goriot (Preston Dargan 72). A keen observer of the \u201clanguage, errors, opinions of the Parisian bourgeois\u201d (Mortimer 84), Balzac creates a narrative that owes its verisimilitude to a minute and vivid descriptions of the human experience. Moreover, he builds a peculiar kind of realism in which the architecture is imbued with human character. A small-scale model of Paris, the boardinghouse emulates a house of mirrors, symbolizing not only entrapment and corruption, but also the ability to shift between multifarious traits and identities which ultimately lead to the degradation of the human condition (Tadi\u00e9 35).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Firstly, Mme Vauquer\u2019s pension bourgeoise represents a metropolis in miniature (Tadi\u00e9 31), where the unseen forces of greed, lust, and confusion work to the detriment of the characters. The boardinghouse foreshadows destruction: \u201cit has a stuffy, musty, and rancid quality\u201d (Balzac 5). It is a mixture of old but likable: \u201cfloor is sufficiently uneven,\u201d (6) \u201cthis apartment is in all its glory at seven o\u2019clock in the morning,\u201d (7) it is decrepit yet charming: \u201cnothing can be more depressing than the sight of that sitting-room [\u2026] yet, [it] is as charming and as delicately perfumed as a boudoir\u201d (7). The boardinghouse entraps its inhabitants after they have been rejected by society (Tadi\u00e9 36). Such is the case of Father Goriot, who has been left to wither away after investing his entire fortune in his daughters\u2019 matrimonial affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secondly, Balzac uses the mirroring effect of the boarding house to create a myriad of unusual and confusing reflections. The characters project themselves upon the house: Mme Vauquer is \u201cthe embodiment and interpretation of her lodging-house,\u201d Rastignac undergoes great character development, exhibiting everything from childish na\u00efvet\u00e9 and devotion to violence, compromise, and deception, while the arch-criminal and insouciant Vautrin is \u201cthe Mephistopheles to Rastignac\u2019s Faust\u201d (Balzac 7;Tadi\u00e9 35). Vautrin is an elaborate phony with multiple identities, while Poiret and Michonneau turn out to be informers for the police. Goriot\u2019s title, p\u00e8re, could mean both \u201cold\u201d and \u201cfather,\u201d pointing to his physical and moral downfall in contrast to his paternal love and sacrifice for his daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conclusion, the boardinghouse in Balzac\u2019s Le P\u00e8re Goriot typifies a \u201cstrikingly organized metaphorical description\u201d of a heightened reality, a house of mirrors where characters are faced with what they are, what they ought to be, and what they unfortunately become (Farrant 123).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Works Cited<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Balzac Honore\u0301 De, and Ellen Marriage. <em>Father Goriot.<\/em> Anncona Media, 2014.<br>\nFarrant, Tim. <em>Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature.<\/em> Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013.<br>\nMortimer, Armine Kotin. <em>For Love or for Money: Balzac\u2019s Rhetorical Realism.<\/em> The Ohio State University Press, 2011.<br>\nDargan, Edwin Preston. \u201cStudies in Balzac. II. Critical Analysis of Realism.\u201d <em>Modern Philology,<\/em> vol. 16, no. 7, 1918, pp. 351\u2013370., doi:10.1086\/387204.<br>\nTadi\u00e9, Benoit. \u201cBalzacian Ghosts in The Boarding House\u201d. <em>European Joyce Studies<\/em>, no.19, 2011, pp. 31-41.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating an outstanding literary analysis takes time, practice and skill. Liking the book you\u2019ve read is not enough \u2013 you need to understand the specific tools the author used for creating the effect and delivering the message. 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