Eugenie Grandet
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"Eugénie Grandet" is one of the representative works in "The Human Comedy". It uses realistic writing to describe the criminal methods of the bourgeois upstarts: Grandet controls the market, drives up prices, engages in public debt speculation, and usury; Charlie traffics in humans, tax evasion and smuggling, etc. At the same time, it also vividly depicts Grandet's love for money as much as his life: his wife was critically ill, but he was reluctant to call a doctor; after his wife died, he forced his daughter Eugenie to give up the right to inherit her mother's inheritance; he watched his brother go bankrupt and committed suicide without helping him; he forced his nephew away, creating Eugenie's love tragedy. The work takes the miser Grandet's family life and exploitative activities as the main line, and Eugenie's love and marriage tragedy as the central event. It analyzes Grandet's sinful fortune and his dehumanizing money worship layer by layer. It successfully portrays the immortal image of the miser in the history of world literature and profoundly exposes the greedy nature of the bourgeoisie and the ruthless money relationship between people in capitalist society.
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