The novel Colonel Chabert by Honore de Balzac portrays Paris in several ways. Much of the overall representation of the city of Paris is that of a low, retched, and dirty place. In the novel, Balzac uses the characters to represent the different levels of society in Paris. The Colonel represents the society before the war and the reconstruction and how society rejected the past and wanted to bring in the new and turn their backs against their past. The other l

Stendhal. The Red and The Black. New American Library. New York: New York, 1981.

In the novel The Red and the Black by Stendhal the view of Paris is portrayed more subtle than in Colonel Chabert. The characters in the novel don't necessarily represent the different levels of society. Most of the Paris that is represented in The Red and The Black is the upper class. The image that is given overall is more of greed and corruption that of poverty and slums as seen in Balzac's novel. In one way, the representation of Paris is shown through a statement by Julian, the main character of the novel, when he says that the "passions are so absurd in Paris."(239) Julian's statement here is an example of the higher society. Those who had the money, used their money for their "absurd" extravagances.

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