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    Suicides The Virgin Suicides is a film set in 1974‚ Michigan. The story follows four boys who are reflecting on their old neighbours‚ the five Lisbon sisters. The Lisbon sisters are strictly unreachable due to their overprotective parents. The Girls‚ Therese‚ Mary‚ Bonnie‚ Lux and Cecilia are the puzzle that fill the boys’ conversations. At the beginning of the film the youngest sister‚ Cecilia‚ attempts suicide as she slits her wrists in a bath. In attempt to make her feel better Mr and Mrs. Lisbon

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    temperaments instead of the character‚ study will be in more detail. 2. 3. Therese | Camille | YoungSeriousIron constitutionInside: * Passion * Joy * Anger * To run * Wild animalOutside: * Silent * Indifferent * Lost in thought * Impressions of calmness * Motionless | FeverSufferingSicknessStruggleIgnorantEmptyEgotisticSpindlyS tunted | Chapter 3‚ 4 & 5 4. Madame Raquin is very protective of her son‚ Camille because she has saved him from several illnesses

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    the haunting of Laurent and Grenouille in Therese Raquin and Perfume‚ respectively.      There is always something haunting one‚ whether we’ve lied to someone‚ done something we strongly regretted or not sure of something. In these two books‚ there’s a clear presence of haunting‚ however the way it is shown to the reader is different. One has a lot to do with guilt and fright as this is the key element in the haunting of Laurent in the novel Therese Raquin‚ while In Perfume it is shown with curiosity

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    when it first emerged was Emile Zola‚ he wrote mostly novels and wanted to reform the way they were written he also wanted to reform the play. Zola’s first major statement about naturalism was in his novel‚ Thèrése Raquin‚ which was first brought to the stage in 1873. The preface of Thèrése Raquin stated his views about naturalism in the theatre and in the novel. He felt that the theatre was years behind the novel and suffered from old and outdated conventions. Zola didn’t like the distortion of psychology

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    brought to the fore.  Light is a motif encountered in The Bell Jar and Thérèse Raquin‚ used to illuminate true human nature. In The Bell Jar‚ Sylvia Plath’s  use of mirrors  conveys Esther dissociated identities; the mirror is a reminder of her inability to understand herself‚ and presents the difference between her inner self and the person she exhibits to the outer world. Similarly‚ Emile Zola uses light in Thérèse Raquin to reveal Laurent and Therese’s true nature‚ which is usually concealed

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    Emile Zola

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    EMILE ZOLA LIFE AND FAMILY: Emile Zola or Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola was a French writer‚ the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. Zola was born in Paris in April 2‚ 1840. His father‚ François Zola (originally Francesco Zolla)‚ was an Italian engineer. His mother is Alexandrine Zola‚ the family moved to Aix-en-Provence in the southeast‚ when Émile was three years old. Four years later in

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    BCE)—the earliest work of dramatic theory.[5] The use of "drama" in the narrow sense to designate a specific type of play dates from the 19th century. Drama in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy—for example‚ Zola’s Thérèse Raquin (1873) or Chekhov’s Ivanov (1887). It is this narrow sense that the film and television industry and film studies adopted to describe "drama" as a genre within their respective media.[6] "Radio drama" has been used in both senses—originally transmitted

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    Emile Zola

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    1865 he was hired as a clerk to work in L.-C.-F Hachette where he then worked in advertising. His first novel was La Confession de Claude (Claude’s Confession). He then went on to journalism. He continued to write many works such as Therese Raquin(1867)‚ Madeleine Ferat (1868)‚ La Fortune des Rougon (Beginning in 1870)‚ Fécondité (1899) Vérité (1903) and Justice (which remained incomplete). He defended the art of Cézane‚ Manet‚ Claude Monet‚ Edgar Degas and Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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    Emily Zola

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    Bibliography: • CONTES Á NINON‚ 1864 - Stories for Ninon • LA CONFESSION DE CLAUDE‚ 1865 - Claude ’s Fonfession • MES HAINES‚ 1866 • MON SALON‚ 1866 • THÉRÈRE RAQUIN‚ 1867 - trans. • EDOUART MANET‚ 1867 • LES MYSTÈRES DE MARSEILLE‚ 1867 - The Mysteries of Marseilles • NOUVEAUX CONTES À NINON‚ 1874 • L ’ASSOMMOIR‚ 1877 - The "Assommoir" / The Dram-Shop- Ansa‚ suom • THÉÂTRE‚ 1878 • LA RÉPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE

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    Emile Zola

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    Rougon-Macquart cycle which included such novels as L ’ASSOMMOIR (1877)‚ about the suffering of the Parisian working-class‚ NANA (1880)‚ dealing with prostitution‚ and GERMINAL (1885)‚ depicting the mining industry. After his first major novel‚ THÉRÈSE RAQUIN (1867)‚ Zola started the long series called Les Rougon Macquart‚ the natural and social history of a family under the Second Empire. "I want to portray‚ at the outset of a century of liberty and truth‚ a family that cannot restrain itself in its

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