Write a 1000-1500-word essay that develops and supports an interpretation of Raymond Radiguet’s novella The Devil in the Flesh from one of the topics below.

Raymond Radiguet’s novella The Devil in the Flesh.

Task: 

Write a 1000-1500-word essay that develops and supports an interpretation of Raymond Radiguet’s novella The Devil in the Flesh from one of the topics below.

Topics: ( Choose one)

What does the narrator’s perception of love reveal about him psychologically? How does his view of love affect his behavior?

Analyse the significance of the final paragraph of the novella.  What do Marthe’s dying words and the narrator’s misreading of them reveal?

Analyse the narrator’s desire for Marthe from a Freudian, psychoanalytic perspective. What does his desire reveal about his psychosexual development?  .

Analyse the mother figure in the novella.

Childhood:

Analyse the significance of early childhood as a motif throughout the novella. Francois consistently parallels his young adult behavior and desires to those of an infant . What ideas do the symbolic parallels between Francois’ young adult desires  and infantile desires suggest?
What commentary does the author make about the bourgeois society in which the novella is set though the portrayal of Francois?

Analyse the signficance of Marthe’s death.  What does it reveal, symbolically?  (What major theme(s) is(are) revealed though the portrayal of her death?

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