miércoles, 20 de mayo de 2009

Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant

I think that this story is a good example of hypocrasy.
Hypocrasy is shown at the very beginning of the story, when Boule the Suif is in the stagecoach with other occupants (each of whom represents a different social class). Despite the fact that she is discriminated by them, she glady shares her picnic basket with the hungry occupants of the coach. But at the end of the story, when she has no food for the rest of the journy, the others occupants refuse to share their food with her.


In addiction, another part of the story that depicts hypocrasy, is when they persuade her to sleep with the German officer, so that they can continue with the journy, and arguing that it is for the good of the country and it is not moraly wrong to sleep with him, when finally she sleeps with him, they threw a party without her.
To concluye, I think that the end of the story is very shocking. Despite the fact that she set them free, they treat her with indifference, they treat her like an object, what´s more like a thing.

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