... ;rese Raquin (1868) was written by Émile Zola during the Naturalist literary period. Zola believed that writing novels was like performing a science experiment. He put characters of different behaviors and values together and described how they acted together. His work emphasized that people are shaped by ... educated by her father, and wrote a novel that included ideas that only well educated people could understand. There were many allusions to works of literature; these allusions meaningless to readers who are not familiar with the works. Some of these works include: Paradise Lost, ...

• Word Count: 1913
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School