Nana By Emile Zola Analysis

In the novel “Nana”, Zola depicted a picture of naturalistic fictional word in which the character’s surrounding and social environment was described. Through the incidences happened on those characters, it lets us to figure out insights and beliefs about French Society in 19th century. The conflict between the religious mysticism and sensuality is the point of discussion in “Nana”. Sexual empowerment and desires were heavily emphasized in the novel as the sensorial images and descriptions regarding to those characters were portrayed. The reason I choose this topic is that Zola used a naturalistic way to depict the character’s life, unlike other literatures where the emotion of characters and idealism were artificially distorted by the narrator. Zola showed us the natural instinct of characters to satisfy the need of sexual …show more content…
It corresponds to the situation with Nana that her organ is “nervously deranged” ( "(Emile Zola , Nana.221) due to the early poverty and family origin. The society was partly infected by those organs of desires. It arose the homoerotism termed as pursuing the pleasure from the body touch for the purpose of sexual empowerment. It corresponds to the naturalism advocated by Zola where the body functions and activities were frankly depicted. As mentioned in the scene for Nana that “with quiet audacity, she appeared in her nakedness, certain of the sovereign power of her flesh” (Emile Zola, Nana.30).
Apart from that, Nana transformed from her relationship with male to female where she can get pleasure from. She is capable traits of both female and male and her affairs to both sex empowers her since Zola described Nana that “she was bored to death with no pleasure” (Emile Zola p230) and "Satin was her vice"(Emile Zola, 410) was mentioned to tell about her lesbianism with