Balzac’s interest in personal names is often explicit in Eugénie Grandet. Encryptable, decipherable, changeable, and exchangeable, these names reinforce or are reinforced by the different qualities of the characters they designate, and they occupy an important place in the novel’s thematic repertoire. The names of the heroine and her cousin in particular shine a light on their story.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques