Thursday, December 13, 2012

Madame Fifi by Guy De Maupasant

The story takes place in Normandy in the winter of 1870, in a fictional chateau which is being used as a headquarters by Prussian officers. The main characters of the story are quickly introduced: the Major, a dignified and cultured German aristocrat; his Captain, a boorish and lecherous minor Prussian landowner; two lieutenants from the Prussian bourgeoisie; and the title character, a handsome but arrogant and extremely unpleasant German captain known to his comrades as "Mademoiselle Fifi" due to his effeminate manner.
The officers have been quartered in the chateau for several weeks, and as they are far away from the fighting and do not want to go out due to the endless rain, the officers are desperately bored. They have been spending their days drinking, gambling, and destroying the chateau's paintings, furniture and other fine objects. After a boring lunch, the aristocratic captain suggest a dinner party, and sends an army transport wagon to the local town to bring back some prostitutes to keep the officers company. In the evening, the party begins, and soon the officers and prostitutes are drunk and in high spirits. The officer known as Fifi, who has taken a Jewish prostitute called Rachel, starts smashing things and making violent sexual advances on Rachel. The party-goers start telling dirty jokes in bad French and the officers make a variety of slurred speeches praising German military prowess, which makes Rachel increasingly angry. When Fifi makes a speech proclaiming that France is crushed and that all of France, including all French women, are now Prussian property, Rachel rebukes him. At this Fifi slaps Rachel, who becomes enraged and stabs Fifi with a cheese knife and jumps out the window. Fifi soon dies, and the major orders a search for Rachel but she is never found. The German officers become curious that the next day, the church bell in the village, which has been silent as a sign of national mourning, is suddenly ringing again, and continues to ring until the day the armistice is signed, when the German officers finally leave the chateau. At the end of the story, it is revealed that Rachel herself has been hiding in the bell tower, ringing the bell as a sign of her personal triumph over the Germans.

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Like many of Maupassant's stories, Mademoisele Fifi explores the theme of contrasting the French and the Germans. The German officers in the novel are all outrageous stereotypes; they all sport beards, have blond or bright red hair, and are depicted as pompous, uncultured men. Fifi himself combines the worst stereotypes of the Germans; he is violent, immoral, arrogant, and takes great delight in pointlessly smashing priceless antiques and objets d'art in the chateau. The German soldiers in the novel are portrayed as blindly obeying any orders and remaining stoically obedient at all times, whilst at the same time being fairly unprofessional soldiers, two of them being killed by accident whilst searching for Rachel after the party.
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Lullaby at dawn


As time goes by left only the moon above the sky, I was wondering, all supposed by designed of what’s to do and beyond doubt we would imagine who is who, With rewarded given about the rhyme of target and time have been forgotten,it's alright of course
Not yet, every single one of them nodded their heads, as if they'd always suspected. of course they had. Show thee bear it,but wasn't my cross to bear...Link the Allman Brothers Band .Can thou imagine how much easier it would have been if everyone had helped? the weight of it distributed amongst thee? no, no... it wasn't anybody else's burden. A thousand miles we heard his cursed of tale under the sky, where he gone to pet thy whale? Sperm whales beyond thus hands their lives presumed.
Nature rolling on, still falls the rain to nite never to soon a poet who poses like prophet yes he could and he would slash the moon once, twice and ...Kai.. the Hitchhiker . never too soon had I been told he just kept going until the rise of another day after tomorrow he said gimme sympathy and I will go straighten out things "No matter what you done, you deserve respect, even if you make mistakes, you lovable. And it doesn't matter your looks, your skills, size, age, anything, you're worthwhile. No one can take that away from you." Kai the Hitchhiker. A hero for a new generation.
. All of the sudden he leaped to the sky and no one dare to see me cried, indeed it was the twelveth dated back recovery moon. As a pen has written,"Moon" in my thought,flashing desinated light,
By an edge of his sword,nevertheless he said "C'mon keep round me dancin." All of sudden he swang his sword he been looking at sky glancing"Good bye thee" he said,second hand had been at twelveth. Coming from twilight a unicon bow on his knees,believing we could swore the moon eclipsed and we'd seen nothing more.







poses like prophet yes he could and he would slash the moon once, twice And never too soon, indeed it was the twelveth dated back recovery moon. Never anyword his name been told he just keep going until the rise the day After tomorrow he said gimme sympathy and I will go straighten things. All of the sudden he leap up to the sky and no one there to shine by noon. “The moon” he said C’mon dancing around me give me a drink and I’ll talk ‘til three. I haven’t realized earlier but he who had said was replying by me “Here’s your drink” hekenew it absolutely free of charge then he swallow all. How did he has it been done? I don’t know but with a single chuck then grabed his sword and didn’t forget to wish us lucks,so we just sat there and felt so stoned. Never any word his name been told....



.......You're sittin' there and wonderin' what it's all about You ain't got no money, they will put you out Why don't you do right, like some other men do? Get out of here and get me some money too........



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