The love in the novel "Bell Ami" by Guy de Maupassant

In the year that Balzac dies, another great writer is born, who will receive international recognition, Guy de Maupassant. In his most successful novel, "Bell Ami" Maupassant has managed to balance intimate human life with the societal problems of the particular historical age and thus attract a wide circle of readers of different interests. In his novel, "Bell Ami" Maupassant interprets the ambitious rhetoric in the 19th century literature. Maupassant pronounced his categorical and non-appealing verdict over the caretaker, portraying the ironic contrast between what Georges Déroa is portraying and what he is. For the morally degraded young man, even love is not love, but a deal that will enforce its faster ascension into the social hierarchy. Duero's opinion of love, his ability to enchant women, and his many love adventures prove his character.

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Like Eugen de Rastiniak, the protagonist of the novel has an attractive appearance. It is a weapon for his ambition to succeed. The author first portrays the impact on women of different occupations and different ages and then describes it. But inside, Georges Duroas is idle, elementary, uneducated .... The hero does not dare to follow them because he is trying to get in touch with a high society woman. Both Plutiniak and Duroa receive a lesson to familiarize with the order of the society they are trying to enter. A teacher for him in this sense is his former colleague Algeria Charles Forest. This lesson only shows that the forms of government in France are changing, but the morale of the higher society remains the same as that of the Restoration. Typically Balzak is also the path of George Douroa to the tops associated with the artistic motif female ladder. The thirst for elevation of the hero merges with the thirst for love, and he stops at nothing, though at the beginning he is still unconscious, somewhere in daring dreams, until the very circumstances direct him on this path. Initially, Duroa seemed to be swept by the current, but later he became the engine of action. The hero's connection with each of the high-ranking ladies is another step to the top. But using Balzac's techniques and motives, Maupassant parodied them. He turns even a lame mundane lady, like Mrs. Walter, into a comic figure. Frustrated by the passion for the young lover she makes funny faces and calls him my boy. Even more reprehensible would be the work if Maupassant had collided at the door of the room for love with the two lovers of Duero Mrs Walter and Mrs. Marel. The author did not do this not from some moral inhibitions, but from purely storyline considerations. If that had happened, Walter's door would have been forever closed for Duroa. Instead, he later became involved with Susan's daughter, Walter, and this is his last step to the desired peak.

Maupassant also uses many other artistic techniques, but by cross-referencing them, he puts a figurative sign on them. For example, in the mocking, kneeling before Mrs. Marel, Duroa has something of the Shakespearean heroes, but without their tragicity. Without realizing it, George Duroa seeks in the immorality a public self-esteem without which he would not remain in the elite society. And although Bell is a love novel, love is not there. It's just a bargain, made for some intrigue and a means of cheating foolish women like Mrs. Walter and Mrs. Marel. But before the last step to the top, the hero must finally fall into the reader's eyes, because until now in his successes there is something spicy, something trivial, which causes the reader to experience all the seductions made by Duroa. To accomplish his latest plan, marriage to Susan, a serious obstacle appears: he is married, Madlen is a chain of his feet, and Susan will be wings on his shoulder for a career career. The only way to fulfill his ambitions is to sacrifice his honor. In the novel "Bell Ami" of Maupassant , a general picture of the mores in the society of vanquished ideals, vague rules and moral decay has been created, in a society where no common goals or epochal ideas are pursued, but pleasures and satisfaction for less civilized needs i. dangle. In such a world, people are really alone, solidarity between them is destroyed, and everyone is fighting against everyone with the means they have. Even faced with death, they think of the successful moves of their career.