Alexandre Dumas, Pauline, tragic death, foreshadowing, literary analysis, narrative technique, 19th century French literature, novel analysis, character study
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Analysis of Alexandre Dumas' novel Pauline, exploring the tragic death of the eponymous character and its foreshadowing in the text.
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[...] Pauline, Chapter 16 - Alexandre Dumas (1838) - In what way does this excerpt foreshadow the tragic death of Pauline? Linear Analysis Question Identify the 3 movements of the text and give a title to each movement Question 2 : Perform a linear analysis on the last two paragraphs. (Provide the time used, movements, repetitions, metaphors, opposition, notions of temporality, figures of style and write the lines with examples . ) Question 3 : Perform an introduction and a conclusion on the entire text. [...]
[...] Conclusion : To conclude, we had asked ourselves in which this excerpt announces the death of Pauline who is idealized and this in a tragic way. The eponymous character appears as someone saint, or even sacralized. Pauline is placed on a pedestal and is shown as glorified, which reinforces the pain of her loss. Furthermore, this is tragic because her death is announced from the beginning of the excerpt. Above all, one feels the intense sadness of Alfred in thinking about the death of the one he loves. [...]
[...] He ends this memory with a hyperbole, that is to say an exaggeration that idealizes and embellishes Pauline: 'as must have been the appearance of the angels who brought the word of the Lord to the prophets.' Pauline is once again glorified and put forward, like an angel. She seems to almost leave as a martyr, which attracts the reader's pity. Introduction : The novel Pauline was written by French author Alexandre Dumas and published in 1838. This work consists of two nested stories, i.e., two stories embedded in an initial story with different narrators. [...]
[...] It is then Pauline who becomes the narrator and explains how she discovered the dark side of her husband. Finally, Alfred becomes the narrator to tell the last moments of Pauline and her death. In this excerpt, which is located at the end of the work, Alfred addresses Alexandre and tells him the moment when he met him and the last months of Pauline's life. It is interesting to wonder in what way this excerpt announcing Pauline's death idealizes the young woman and is at the same time tragic. [...]
[...] We therefore understand that this excerpt is tragic because Pauline's death has already passed when the narrator tells the story, her destiny cannot therefore change. Thus, this passage reveals the narrator's feelings and is personal, which touches the reader. The narrator in this excerpt is Alfred de Nerval and he addresses Alexandre Dumas, the author, who is also a character in the story, but who is himself the narrator at the beginning of the work. [...]
