![]() ![]() ![]() This essay will focus in particular on how Zola demonstrates his belief that a person’s milieu and heredity has an immense/a substantial impact on their character and identity. Zola was a firm believer in the idea that one’s heredity, environment, and milieu greatly affects one’s identity and core values, consequently, their character and morality is immensely influenced by their upbringing, and hence, that those living in poor conditions were destined for a life of crime. Zola’s naturalist beliefs permeate the novel in his descriptions of the environment, which he utilizes to illustrate the dark side of humanity, stripping society of its false, idealistic facade, demonstrating the discordant and tragic realities of Paris. Zola is no stranger to the social injustice in Paris, he grew up witnessing the drastic contrast between the lives of the bourgeois and aristocrats with the life of the poor. The Parisian writer drew on his own personal experiences to present Victorian Paris as truthfully as possible. ![]() The 19th-century novel, ‘Therese Raquin’, was one of Emile Zola’s earliest novels to have maintained a position of merit in his canon. ![]()
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