Therese Raquin
The central protagonist in the 19th century realist novel, Therese
Raquin enters into two different relationships with Camille and
Laurent respectively. Camille is being formally acknowledged as her
husband while she is in an adulterous relationship with Laurent. The
nature of these two relationship is contradictory, with the former one
being passionateless and the latter one being opportunistic. The
motivations behind these two relationships are also worth
investigating. Unfortunately, both relationship turns out to be a
"tragedy" and causes severe impact on her.
Camille and Therese are paired up mostly due to the arrangement of
Madame Raquin. As her son's growth has been retarded, the more
desperate she is to find a "guardian angel" for him in case of
unexpected death. To her, Therese is a logical choice to "make a
watchful nurse for Camille." As for Therese, she feels obliged to
marry Camille due to Madame Raquin's generous hospitality for the past
years and dare not reject her offer. Therese has always "shown passive
obedience" and does what they command, "without a word of complaint or
reproach". The marriage is arranged without Therese being consulted.
On the other hand, Therese regards Camille to be pitiable to some
extend as he faces succession of terrible illness and have to swallow
medicines frequently. Therefore, she does not object to the marriage
because of her sympathy towards him. The union formed is inherently
unnaturally and equality among individuals does not exist, which
foreshadows the tragic and inevitable outcome of their marriage.
In direct contrast, Laurent and Therese's formation of an a...
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apathetic. Camille seldom shows up in the shop and prefers to wander
about all day with dragging steps. He enjoys his long day in his grand
department so much that "he will go to bed early and leave at eight in
the morning". Whenever he is done with his meal and reading, he will
drop off to sleep immediately. Days follow days, they remain pensive
throughout a whole evening with not much communication and definitely
no physical contact between the both of them.
All in all, Camille and Therese have no passion to each other. They
are just being bind together unnaturally by external force which
unavoidably leads to the destruction of their marriage. As for Therese
and Laurent, they possess some degree of reciprocal passion towards
each other and to a small extend there's a degree of equality in their
union.
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