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| 2 | * BileFascination: A rare, ''centuries''-long example of this trope. De Sade's controversial writings (if not the man himself) have made him the subject of both disgust and fascination by philosophers, writers and psychologists across the years, with entire books centered around analyzing him as both a writer and a person. In fact, the word "sadism" comes from his ''very name.'' |
| 3 | * MoralEventHorizon: The moment we know that Eugénie of ''Philosophy in the Bedroom'' has crossed this is when she [[spoiler:rapes her own mother, Madame de Mistval, and ''sews her genitals shut'' after [[ThePunishment having her infected with syphilis]]]]. |
| 4 | * NauseaFuel: Copious amounts of it. ''Literature/The120DaysOfSodom'' is the most notorious in this regard, but almost all of Sade's works have content that can easily turn a reader's stomach. |
| 5 | * NightmareFuel: ''The 120 Days of Sodom'': At first it's just NauseaFuel. Then you get to the {{gorn}}. Which includes rape, torture, and killing of innocents in very brutal ways. What's worse, it was made into [[Film/SaloOrThe120DaysOfSodom one of the most challenging films of all time]], similar in notoriety to ''Film/CannibalHolocaust'' and ''Film/MenBehindTheSun''. |
| 6 | * TheWoobie: The title character of ''Justine'', a sweet, kind girl who just wants to be good. Unfortunately, she's in a Marquis de Sade novel, so she suffers utter ''hell'' because of it. Everyone that she meets who doesn't want to beat and/or rape her wants to do something even worse to her, and usually gets to do it. The ''high'' point of this story is Justine recounting how at the age of twelve, she asked for shelter in a man's house and was told that she could only stay if she would have sex with him. Poor Justine gets NoSympathy for this whatsoever because human decency doesn't seem to exist at all in Sade's CrapsackWorld -- she gets ''screamed at'' by the person she talks about this to for being a "parasite" that wanted something for nothing. And it does ''not'' get better for her. |
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