Farmer
by H
About This Novel
"The Peasant" is Balzac's masterpiece. The novel describes the conflict between the land ownership of aristocratic large estates and the small land ownership of the bourgeoisie, and the peasants are in the middle of these two social forces, just like "a bug is caught between a hammer and an anvil." The loan shark businessmen Gaubertin and Li Gu, who represented the interests of the bourgeoisie, defeated General Mongonay, who represented the interests of the aristocratic large landowners. However, the peasants who were attracted by the loan shark businessmen and rich peasants to this cruel struggle gained nothing. They just fell into a new kind of slavery and met a more vicious master. Balzac here describes the poverty situation in the countryside after the bourgeois revolution under the double exploitation of landlords and bourgeoisie, the farmers' strong hatred for the exploiters, and the farmers' dependence on loan sharks determined by their economic status at the time.
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