Entre le crime et la sensibilité
Clairwil is a complex heroine characterized by contradictions. As the Marquise de Merteuil she enjoys avenging her sex over male supremacy and articulates a sophisticated system of apathy. However her feminism is faltering, for it presupposes the weakness of woman who hopes to offend Nature through...
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Clairwil is a complex heroine characterized by contradictions. As the Marquise de Merteuil she enjoys avenging her sex over male supremacy and articulates a sophisticated system of apathy. However her feminism is faltering, for it presupposes the weakness of woman who hopes to offend Nature through the triumph over strength. As for stoicism, the libertine teacher demands that Juliette only commit crime in cold blood and maintains: the mind must control everything. Yet, fortunate apathy and militant feminism are easily dispelled. Fanatical putanisme, enthusiastic blasphemy and the fantasy of pure and perpetual crime replace cold reason. Her life ends by refusing an uncommon crime: killing her beloved pupil. The apprentice, on the contrary does not hesitate, she poisons her mistress phlegmatically. Like Merteuil Clairwil’s destiny is tragic : by overestimating the impassivity of reason, she underestimates Juliette’s fascinating impetuousness. |
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