The Masterpiece Marcel Zola Analysis

In Emile Zola’s The Masterpiece, when Christine insist that Claude give up painting near the end of the book. He responded “No, it is not enough! I won’t go away with you, I won’t be happy, I will paint!’ And I shall die of it, eh? And you will die of it, and we shall end by leaving all our blood and all our tears in it! There’s nothing beyond Art, that is the fierce almighty god who strikes us with his thunder, and whom you honour! he may crush us, since he is the master, and you will still bless his name!’” (Chapter XII, page503) Claude has a muse that drives him crazy and was willing to give up everything for it, his painting, the masterpiece that leads him to a series of dramatic and inspiring life with the materiel of, death, struggle, poverty, inhuman, and see through the life beyond he can …show more content…
Art Lights published the story of their work, but his page of eloquence touched very few people at the time. Harry’s experiment had been gutted and crushed, and she ranted in protest. Once the gears of despair began to turn, they banged and clinked with the same compulsive music. She had been robbed. No one understood her. No one paid attention to her. They were all blockheads, dupes of creeping sexism and phallus worship. Rune should be drawn and quartered, his eyes scooped out with razor-sharpe grapefruit spoons and smashed into jelly with hammer. Her life’s work had been ruined, the ambitious project carefully constructed from the blocks of her radiant intellect, one beautiful irony on top of another — which would prove once and for all her theories about sex bias and perception and God-knows-what else had exploded in her face. “ (page 291) Masks come with a series of disappointing and difficulties, but partly they are her creation, too. Overall, She wanted to entire the art world and beloved and be recognized by creating masterpieces without being limited by living in a wrong time with a female identity pursuing artist