In 2017, the era of the constant barrage and chatter about ‘mindfulness’ and ‘self-development’ I decided to dig deep and see what we could learn from our elders in classic French Literature.
As a lover of the classics of French literature I found myself wondering:
What can we learn and apply to life today from the characters we love and feel that we know so well.”
Welcome to part three of French Literature life lessons! The characters in classic French literature have had to encounter their own life problems: oppression, crime and illness to name a few. Their situations can help us to learn from what they did right…or wrong.
What would these characters advise us to do in our day-to-day problems?
7. Life lessons: Lamiel – Do everything that makes you happy
Lamiel from Stendhal’s Lamiel is an extremely oppressed woman in her household. She is forced by her family to respect the same beliefs, including seeing books as sin. They try to control who Lamiel will be suited for, and not, what she truly wants.
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