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[[File:raquin_9981.gif|frame|A guilty conscience will always confess, the novel.]]▼
| title = Thérèse Raquin
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One of the first novels of Émile Zola, published in 1867 before he began his magnum opus, the ''Rougon-Macquart'' series, ''Thérèse Raquin'' tells the story of an adulterous young woman who kills her husband and marries her lover. [[It Got Worse|It doesn't go well.]]▼
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| author = Émile Zola
| central theme = Murdering people, even if you hated them, is more difficult that it seems
| elevator pitch = A woman and her lover murder her annoying husband so they can be together. Then their guilty conscience over it sets in...
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| publication date = 1868
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▲One of the first novels of [[Émile Zola]], published in 1867 before he began his magnum opus, the ''Rougon-Macquart'' series, ''Thérèse Raquin'' tells the story of an adulterous young woman who kills her husband and marries her lover. [[It Got Worse|It doesn't go well.]]
Thérèse is the daughter of a French captain and an Algerian mother. Her father brings her to France to be brought up by his sister Madame Raquin alongside her son Camille, after which he is never seen again. Thérèse grows up extremely repressed because her desires are always secondary to Camille's demands, wishes, and physical limitations. When she is twenty-one, Madame Raquin marries her to Camille, a marriage without affection on both sides. Camille decides to move the family to Paris so he can start a career.
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Unfortunately for them, they didn't really consider what life as secret murderers would be like, and their crime [[Sanity Slippage|slowly starts to drive them mad]].
Was loosely adapted by [[Park Chan
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* [[And I Must Scream]]: Mme. Raquin literally can't scream anymore when she realized Thérèse and Laurent have killed her child. She does try to rat them out, but fails, which makes this even worse.
* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Camille and Thérèse
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** After WWII during the long-drawn fight for independence, Algerian women in Algiers were apparently able to pass for Frenchwomen by cutting and curling their hair and wearing the latest fashions, so as to get through checkpoints without having their bags searched--and place bombs.
* [[Can't Have Sex Ever]]: After Camille dies, Laurent and Thérèse find they are unable to have sex. Partly because they keep imagining they see him in their bedroom.
* [[Can't Live
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Madame Raquin when she learns that Thérèse and Laurent murdered Camille.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Camille's father is nowhere in the story. His mother raises him alone. Thérèse too, because Mme. Raquin's brother disappeared as well, leaving his daughter behind.
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** {{spoiler|[[Driven to Suicide]]}}
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Thérèse, for her entire childhood. She is incredibly repressed because it's the only way to make life with her aunt and cousin bearable.
* [[Finishing Each
* [[Four
** Sanguine: Laurent
** Choleric: Madame Raquin
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