L’ASSOMMOIR D’EMILE ZOLA, GERVAISE, UNE FEMME TRAGIQUE
EMILE ZOLA’S ASSOMMOIR, GERVAISE, A TRAGIC WOMAN

Summary/Abstract: More than a genre, tragedy is a philosophy that reminds man of the individualization of the collective lot. The interest in studying a female character in the indissoluble bonds of fate allowed highlighting the subtilties and the mechanisms of a phenomenon. The analysis could reveal that in the creation of Gertrude, Zola called into play the ethos and the daimon, two essential motives of the tragic. Atavism and the problem of the foot brought about a structuring absolutely intrinsic to the character. To these personal properties of Gervaise, are added aphallocentric life and the fact of making of her Lantier’s endocentric plaything. All these aspects of the character, interior and exterior, help understand the stranglehold that definitely holds her.

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