Eugenie Grandet Goriot
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"Eugenie Grandet": takes the protagonist Grandet's family life as the main line, and Eugenie's love tragedy as the core of the conflict. There are no poisons, no sharp knives, and no bloodshed in the novel, but it perfectly portrays the image of Grandet, a cruel, greedy, and miserly capitalist. It profoundly exposes Grandet's ugly way of getting rich and his ignorant view of money, and successfully creates an immortal image of a miser in the history of world literature. With its comic exaggeration, personalized language and detailed character description, the novel has achieved considerable literary achievements, marking a new leap in the ideological and artistic aspects of Balzac's works. "Petro Goriot": In 1819, the Vauquer apartment in Paris lived with several tenants including Goriot, a retired flour merchant known as "Petro Goriot", the poor but ambitious student Rastignac, and the easy-going but cold-hearted Vautrin. Old Man Goriot, who spends every penny in his own life, dotes on his two daughters who have married into the upper class, and uses the wealth he has accumulated throughout his life to satisfy his daughters' extravagance; Rastignac, a poor young man from the mainland, witnesses the extravagance of Paris aristocrats, vows to get ahead, and hopes to rise to the top by befriending noble ladies; The hypocritical Vautrin was a fugitive from prison who had been hiding in the corner, waiting for an opportunity to seize wealth... Seeing that Goriot's family property was squeezed out by his two daughters, and he did not even see his daughter for the last time before his death. Vautrin's conspiracy failed, his identity was exposed and he was caught. Rastignac seemed to see through the hypocrisy and absurdity of this upper class society, and he was determined to challenge the society...
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