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The Treatment of the Heroines in Representative Novels of François Mauriac

This study analyzes specific scenes in the novels dealt with in order to determine the type of women characters Mauriac has created. This study covers Mauriac's early, middle, and late periods as a novelist. The heroines are nearly all examined in relation to each other chronologically. The study shows that Mauriac first portrays a religious and simple heroine. The heroines become agnostic, if not atheistic in several of the subsequent novels. Through Therese, they become progressively more psychologically complex. They then become less complicated and, except for the last heroine, are religious. The last heroine is psychologically portrayed but is the least original of the heroines. The examination of Mauriac's women characters seems to show that the author is deeply sympathetic with the majority of them.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663737
Date05 1900
CreatorsHendry, Linda Ruth
ContributorsHardin, Robert J., Hughes, Robert L.
PublisherNorth Texas State University
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatiii, 182 leaves, Text
RightsPublic, Hendry, Linda Ruth, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights

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