Hippolyte Taine Essays

The Necklace’ was a short story written by French writer Guy de Maupassant in the late nineteenth century, which was a period of time where the literary movements naturalism and realism were frequently used in French literature. The short story shows how greed and wealth can change a personality and affect their lifestyles. Throughout ‘The Necklace’, Maupassant aims to show the conflicts between the lower and upper classes, and how their desires may vary. This essay will discuss whether Maupassant

exalted as a valiant status philosophers, like Rousseau and Voltaire, who could be used in justification of the profound break with Ancient Régime. During the 19th-century two historians of the Enlightenment, Alexis de Tocqueville along with Hippolyte Taine, marched to consolidate the link of Enlightenment resulting a revolution and the intellectual approach of