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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663737 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Hendry, Linda Ruth |
| Contributors | Hardin, Robert J., Hughes, Robert L. |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iii, 182 leaves, Text |
| Rights | Public, Hendry, Linda Ruth, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights |
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