The main theme of the works of Guy De Maupassant
The main theme of the novels and numerous stories of Maupassant about the strength of the “natural interior”, the power of gross and selfish instincts and their carriers, who feel confident and comfortable in life. The final embodiment of people of this type is Georges Duroy, the protagonist of the novel “Darling Friend” – a rascal and a rough male, shamelessly using women, often plundering them, confidently advances to wealth and the heights of power. Between the people of the spiritual warehouse are in Maupassant sufferers. Hence the bitterness and sadness that determine the tonality of many of his works, in particular the novels Life, Mont Oriol, numerous short stories, and sometimes entire collections like Miss Harriet, Yvette, Little Rock and others.
Maupassant believed that the writer, first of all, must “reproduce and explain nature through the means of art,” before human nature. At the same time, he noted that people “should be portrayed as they are” and “be interested in the first motive of every action… and especially the impulses inherent in all people, their instinctual impulses.” In this, according to Maupassant, people of all classes and strata are the same, representatives of the upper classes are distinguished by the fact that “they are able to mask the true causes of their actions by convention, falsity, hypocrisy and hypocrisy.” The attention of the artist was concentrated on what is characteristic of human nature as a whole, but manifests itself in different forms inherent in certain social strata and individuals. This was the “merciless,
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