This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Kill by Émile Zola. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, as well as an examination of French society during the Second Empire and a useful introduction to the literary school of naturalism. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect...
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The Kill by Émile Zola (Book Analysis)
The Kill by Émile Zola (Book Analysis)
Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
978280801080162EBookPlurilingua PublishingThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Kill by Émile Zola. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, as well as an examination of French society during the Second Empire and a useful introduction to the literary school of naturalism. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 62-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Émile Zola
Presentation of The Kill
Summary of The Kill
Character study
Aristide Rougon/Saccard
Renée Saccard
Maxime Rougon/Saccard
Sidonie Rougon
Analysis of The Kill
Naturalism
Imperial society
Women in society
Physicality and gender roles
An impressionistic writing style
About The Kill
The Kill is the second novel in Émile Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart cycle, and focuses on the shrewd businessman Aristide Saccard, who uses his position in government administration to take advantage of the renovation of Paris, which was led by Baron Haussmann in the mid-19th century, and make a fortune through property speculation. However, his greed gets the better of him when he tries to seize his wife Renée’s inherited property, leading him to discover that she has secrets of her own…
About Émile Zola
The novelist and journalist Émile Zola was one of the most celebrated writers of 19th century France. He was the leading figure of the literary school of naturalism, which drew on the scientific advances of the time and sought to explain human behaviour through meticulous observation. He is best known for Les Rougon-Macquart, an ambitious cycle of 20 novels which tells the story of one extended family under the Second French Empire and which illustrates his approach to literature.
Zola was also an influential social thinker: he vocally condemned the Dreyfus affair, and his famous article J’accuse played a major role in the eventual exoneration of the Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus.This practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Kill by Émile Zola. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, as well as an examination of French society during the Second Empire and a useful introduction to the literary school of naturalism. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 62-page reading guide is structured as follows:
Biography of Émile Zola
Presentation of The Kill
Summary of The Kill
Character study
Aristide Rougon/Saccard
Renée Saccard
Maxime Rougon/Saccard
Sidonie Rougon
Analysis of The Kill
Naturalism
Imperial society
Women in society
Physicality and gender roles
An impressionistic writing style
About The Kill
The Kill is the second novel in Émile Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart cycle, and focuses on the shrewd businessman Aristide Saccard, who uses his position in government administration to take advantage of the renovation of Paris, which was led by Baron Haussmann in the mid-19th century, and make a fortune through property speculation. However, his greed gets the better of him when he tries to seize his wife Renée’s inherited property, leading him to discover that she has secrets of her own…
About Émile Zola
The novelist and journalist Émile Zola was one of the most celebrated writers of 19th century France. He was the leading figure of the literary school of naturalism, which drew on the scientific advances of the time and sought to explain human behaviour through meticulous observation. He is best known for Les Rougon-Macquart, an ambitious cycle of 20 novels which tells the story of one extended family under the Second French Empire and which illustrates his approach to literature.
Zola was also an influential social thinker: he vocally condemned the Dreyfus affair, and his famous article J’accuse played a major role in the eventual exoneration of the Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus.application/pdf1
DOWNLOAD THIS GUIDEThis practical and insightful reading guide offers a complete summary and analysis of The Kill by Émile Zola. It provides a thorough exploration of the novel’s plot, characters and main themes, as well as an examination of French society during the Second Empire and a useful introduction to the literary school of naturalism. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.
This clear and detailed 62-page reading guide is structured as follows:
- Biography of Émile Zola
- Presentation of The Kill
- Summary of The Kill
- Character study
- Aristide Rougon/Saccard
- Renée Saccard
- Maxime Rougon/Saccard
- Sidonie Rougon
- Analysis of The Kill
- Naturalism
- Imperial society
- Women in society
- Physicality and gender roles
- An impressionistic writing style
About The Kill
The Kill is the second novel in Émile Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart cycle, and focuses on the shrewd businessman Aristide Saccard, who uses his position in government administration to take advantage of the renovation of Paris, which was led by Baron Haussmann in the mid-19th century, and make a fortune through property speculation. However, his greed gets the better of him when he tries to seize his wife Renée’s inherited property, leading him to discover that she has secrets of her own…
About Émile Zola
The novelist and journalist Émile Zola was one of the most celebrated writers of 19th century France. He was the leading figure of the literary school of naturalism, which drew on the scientific advances of the time and sought to explain human behaviour through meticulous observation. He is best known for Les Rougon-Macquart, an ambitious cycle of 20 novels which tells the story of one extended family under the Second French Empire and which illustrates his approach to literature.
Zola was also an influential social thinker: he vocally condemned the Dreyfus affair, and his famous article J’accuse played a major role in the eventual exoneration of the Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus.
Product details
| ISBN | 9782808010801 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Plurilingua Publishing |
| Collection | BrightSummaries.com |
| Format | |
| Pages | 62 |
| File size | 2.1 MB |
