Question Oral Le Père Goriot

de leur usine. Commence à apparaître une culture ouvrière qui va favoriser les mouvements sociaux. §2: La prise de conscience. Trois sortes de catalyseurs, d'abord des romanciers français qui vont critiquer la vie bourgeoise: 1835: Le père Goriot de Balzac. 1862: Les misérables, Victor Hugo. 1885: Germinal, Zola. Ces romans là sont lu par ceux qui sont lettrés et vont favoriser ces prises de conscience. Un penseur allemand va monter au créneau, c'est Karl Marx qui se révolte contre

therefore, to speak not of ‘Literature’ at all, but of ‘Literatures’. A literature of priests and magicians, which was followed by a literature of the hero and gradually turned into a literature of the military and later the intellectual aristocracy. An oral literature which turned into written literature which, when art left the court and the noble house, became a recognized economic activity, developed into a bourgeois literature and, in due course, the literature of popular culture. A literature of

remain sequestered in the house, visiting only occasionally at their parents’ home or attending weddings of relatives. Most male visitors to a man’s home were not allowed to see his wife; it was even considered indelicate for the visitor to ask such a question as “How is your wife?” Only close male relatives like brothers-in-law were exempted from these rules and could socialize with a wife. It is easy to understand how Kadambari could have been drawn to this handsome and sensitive young man who was given