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A 4 page paper which examines the themes of love and death in Emile Zola’s “The Fortune of the Rougons.” No additional sources cited.
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on hereditary realities. He is curious to know how people can all be linked together and result in fortunes, or disaster. In such an approach one is also bound to
find the themes of love and death for they are, in many ways, two things that allow the race of mankind to continue, with love often symbolizing the best and
the most powerful aspects of life. The following paper examines and analyzes the themes of love and death in Zolas novel. Love and Death One of the first examples
of how the themes of love and death are intertwined in this novel come when the author is describing a location, a location that was once a cemetery it seems:
"The vigorous vegetation and the quivering, deathlike stillness of the old cemetery still reign in this path. In all the country round Plassans there is no spot more instinct with
languor, solitude, and love. It is a most delightful place for love-making...frequently happens that ones foot comes across some fragment of a skull lying concealed in the damp turf" (Zola).
There is a powerful thematic sense in this imagery, a thematic sense that right from the beginning closely links love with death. The image, when we really think about
it, is perhaps a bit disturbing if we envision people making love in a cemetery as a common occurrence. As such this provides a powerful image of these themes.
From another perspective we see that lovers and love are mentioned throughout the text. Lovers are a very common theme, and in many ways this reflects the common nature of
death as well. Death comes for all people, and it seems in this book that love and lovers are as common as death. There is also the fear of life
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