Resumo de Teresa Raquin

Teresa Raquin is about in which the love for nature of Zola is very existent. Zola in this history describes what a novel must be according to him, its style, the way the story is written. The story of Teresa Raquin is about two characters Teresa and Laurent, two lovers which will take away the husband of Teresa to live there love freely. However, after the murder, everything goes wrong. For Emile Zola, this situation results of the psychology and being of the characters. A revealing title Teresa Raquin. What can tell us this title made of a first name and a last name which are unusual? To tell the truth not much, but the picture of a woman. And most of all, this title wants to be representative of the character here above mentionned. Teresa is the center of attention in the story with all the events and how she deals with them. Even if we can consider that there are two main characters in this novel, Laurent and Teresa, this last one stays the character which is the most important. She is the one who makes the novel interesting, and she is the one who puts the lovers into trouble because she has a communicating nervous temper which puts her in the lead and dominant, and because her behaviour which is strange reinforces strongly the story. Although these stories mean that the character mentionned is the hero, Emile Zola wanted rather to represent the destiny of this one by her name, through rythm and sound. In fact, the rythm is 2 + 2 if you don't pronounce the final "a" of Teresa. The sound of this name is also singular: the "r" i, the sound of the "t" in the beginning of the name and the "k", the sound "s" at the end of the first name and finally the nasal of the sound "in". Naturalism. To undersand the novel of Emile Zola, you have to know what is naturalism. Emile Zola defines naturalism as the formula of modern science applied to literature. The aim of the naturalists was to use the methods and the resources of earth sciences in literature. Thus, the novel is, to the eyes of the naturalists, un place of observation, a laboratory of experimentation. Two fundamental laws guide the naturalist novelists in writing: social determination and hereditery criteria for the characters. So, in Teresa Raquin, Zola creates a situation in a social environment which is precise and places within it two characters, a man and a woman, which both have a very troubling past. The characters are then imprisoned by determination, and therefore do not have freedom of decision. Then Zola observes them and tries explain the strange unity between two emotional characters which are different and the changes which can result. Two characters, two tempered characters, a story. This novel is interesting mainly because of the profound description of the characters psychology. The situation of the characters and their behaviour are very descriptif, because Zola wants to convince us about the fact that the behaviour of Laurent and Teresa is due to there temper. As a matter of fact, the characters are obliged to feel despair because of their way of behaving and acting. From the six main tempers, Teresa Raquin is the one who is the most nervous, white skin, very flexible and strong body although she is skinny. So, her character closes completely the link, because she is indeed in nature fragile, nervous. She is withdrawn, discrete and silent, indifferent and she does not look further. Laurent, is rather by his temper down to earth, physically speaking, his body is strong, he is heavy, with filled cheeks, and house a garden type look and stays calm. And, his laziness and his search for luxury show that he is from a peasant background by his father. In the beginning of the novel, nothing changes on the psychological level among the two characters. However, the way the story goes, everything become uneven. One has then to remember that Emile Zola wanted to show the relevance of science by showing that if you put two characters of different tempers, nervours or arth like, a chain of reaction will happen. So, the lovers met alone, an incredible passion makes them prison: Teresa is very emotional, all her senses of woman who is nervous appear, Laurent is suprised and they accept each other, in this brutal raise of feelings. For the time being, the combination of tempers is nearly the same. For, Zola qualifies this wild relationship, of brutal and he even compares the characters to animals who are abandonned to their instincts. However, after the death of Camille, something wrong emotionally happens to the lovers. This trouble is due to a scientific phenomenon according to Zola: The nervous temper of Teresa has dominated the temper of Laurent. This is explained by: the death of Camille. Teresa because introverted and worried, and so her character iritates Laurent, him who stays, after the drama, always unconcerned. The ending is a rather a unsuspected surprise, foolishness takes over, but it is interrupted by the conscientisation of the lovers: these last ones realise at that time that they have gone too far and the last resort for them is death.

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