Francois Mauriac Works In The Image Of Women

Francois Mauriac is one of the most famous writers in contemporary French literary.The rich and various female images in his works is the media for him to disclose the essence of bourgeoisie:exploitation,hypocrisy,foolish,evil and hideous and the thought of focusing on money.This paper is trying to analyze the reasons of the female character's tragedy and why they make evil through studying each female character in Francois's works,combing the author's unique writing skills as well.Above all,this paper choose wide ranges of Francois's works,not only including most of his representative works in the period of his mature career,but also involving his last works.In the whole,we can classify various female images into two:the evil females and the pure female in evil environment.Secondly,this paper not only particularly traces back the root of the female character's tragedy and the source of evil but also by analyzing Francois's life experience,the influence from Lasing,Balzac,Baudelaire,which formed his unique tragedy works in which his female characters are trapped by tragedy and evil.In addition,bourgeois money ideology is the invisible hand to decide the females' fate.Through describing females' miserable fate,the author reflect the decay French Bourgeoisie especially the Bordeaux rural real estate bourgeoisie whose family appears to be harmonious actually hiding the ugly doings.Centering on the family, Francois deeply disclose and relentlessly criticize the ugly trading marriage based on the money. At last,this paper induces Francois's writing skills of describing the female images,mainly about the author's unique psychology writing,the depicting of scene,the ingenious use of metaphors and also Balzac's typical characters and environment.All this play important roles in profoundly describing the female tragedy image,and reflecting their miserable fate.The describing of female's tragedy image reflects Francois's strong social responsibility.Through showing the vivid female image and analyzing the substance in modern society alienate the human nature,the spirit crisis of difficult in communicating with family members,the ideology of money and social status controlling the females,Francois provides the modern female with some warning and suggestion.