"all Souls Are Equal In Value"-marianne 's And Jacob's Memoirs
Abstract
For many humanist writers, the "self" is a look at the center, about self-help to understand other people, so they like to use a biography, biography of the protagonist through the vision to understand the world, I hope the reader through the protagonist's experience in education. Eighteenth century in France, such first-person narrative of biography popular novel, the protagonist in the first person tells their own experiences first-hand experience, in addition to create a "plausibility" atmosphere, closer to the distance between author and reader, but also trying to use to achieve the purpose of this entertaining. Mali V work "Marion's life" and "Apprentice of the rustic" is a typical representative of such a novel. Mali, a non-pro-volt non-specifically by the orphan and the humble country folk Marion Jia Bo in the symbol of power and corruption, challenges and temptations of Paris, the struggle to clarify "all souls have equal value." the truth. To many humanist writers, "self" is the center of reflection, and understanding oneself is conducive to the understanding of others. Therefore they like to write biographies whereby to understand the world through the biographee's eyes and hopefully educate the readers through the hero's or the heroine's experience. In France, such biographies in first-person narrative were popular in the eighteenth century. The fact that the hero or heroine described his or her personal experience in first-person narrative could create the mood of verisimilitude, shorten the distance between the author and the readers and, most importantly, serve the purpose of teaching through amusement. Marivaux's novels, La Vie de Marianne and Le Paysan parvenu, were typical of such novels. Marrianne was a helpless orphan, and Jacob was a humble peasant. Showing how they struggled in Paris, the symbol of power, corruption, challenge and temptation, Marivaux demonstrated the meaning of "all souls are equal in value."