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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Valerie's]] death-bed repentance (coupled with the [[NauseaFuel gruesome nature]] of her death) lend themselves to sympathy. [[spoiler:Bette]] to a degree.
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* AlasPoorVillain: AlasPoorVillain:[[invoked]] [[spoiler:Valerie's]] death-bed repentance (coupled with the [[NauseaFuel gruesome nature]] of her death) lend themselves to sympathy. [[spoiler:Bette]] to a degree.
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* NiceGuy: Marshal Hulot (Hector's older brother) is this, [[spoiler:making his death the book's main TearJerker.]] Adeline and Hortense are female examples.
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* NiceGuy: NiceGuy:[[invoked]] Marshal Hulot (Hector's older brother) is this, [[spoiler:making his death the book's main TearJerker.]] Adeline and Hortense are female examples.
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* ScarpiaUltimatum: Crevel's attempts to solicit sex from [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Adeline]] seem doomed for failure. [[spoiler:They gain some traction, however, when the Hulot family's finances end up in the red. Adeline is therefore forced to choose between faithfulness to her husband and financial security. When she finally gives in, Crevel just [[MoralEventHorizon rejects and taunts her, gloating over his victory.]]]] Even worse, Crevel [[spoiler:actually repents when he sees how dignified she is in her total misery, and decides to give her the money anyway with no strings attached - [[MoralEventHorizon only for Valerie to persuade him not to, for no other reason than sheer spite.]]]]
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* ScarpiaUltimatum: ScarpiaUltimatum:[[invoked]] Crevel's attempts to solicit sex from [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Adeline]] seem doomed for failure. [[spoiler:They gain some traction, however, when the Hulot family's finances end up in the red. Adeline is therefore forced to choose between faithfulness to her husband and financial security. When she finally gives in, Crevel just [[MoralEventHorizon rejects and taunts her, gloating over his victory.]]]] Even worse, Crevel [[spoiler:actually repents when he sees how dignified she is in her total misery, and decides to give her the money anyway with no strings attached - [[MoralEventHorizon only for Valerie to persuade him not to, for no other reason than sheer spite.]]]]
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* SmugSnake: Valerie. Her snideness in accusing the genuinely devout Adeline of hypocrisy and fanaticism will likely make you want to throttle her. The sheer number of guys she manages to string along may by some accounts put her into MagnificentBitch territory, but she's definitely overconfident. [[spoiler:And lest we forget, she meets a [[KarmicDeath gruesome end]] for [[BewaretheNiceOnes messing with the wrong guy]].]]
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* SmugSnake: SmugSnake:[[invoked]] Valerie. Her snideness in accusing the genuinely devout Adeline of hypocrisy and fanaticism will likely make you want to throttle her. The sheer number of guys she manages to string along may by some accounts put her into MagnificentBitch territory, but she's definitely overconfident. [[spoiler:And lest we forget, she meets a [[KarmicDeath gruesome end]] for [[BewaretheNiceOnes messing with the wrong guy]].]]
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* TheStoic: Adeline. [[StoicWoobie Painfully so.]] She bears Hector's many infidelities without complaint.
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* TheStoic: TheStoic:[[invoked]] Adeline. [[StoicWoobie Painfully so.]] She bears Hector's many infidelities without complaint.
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* AristocratsAreEvil: Or at least major [[{{Jerkass}} Jerkasses.]]
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: [[spoiler:Averted in Valerie's case.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: Bette and Valerie
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* TheCasanova: Hector is a deconstruction and perhaps a subversion: his conquests come at great cost to him and his family. Which brings us to:
** CasanovaWannabe: Hector beds almost every woman in the story. Why is he a "wannabe", then? [[spoiler:[[GoldDigger They're all bleeding him dry.]]]]
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** CasanovaWannabe: Hector beds almost every woman in the story. Why is he a "wannabe", then? [[spoiler:[[GoldDigger They're all bleeding him dry.]]]]
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* TheCasanova: Hector is a deconstruction and perhaps a subversion: his conquests come at great cost to him and his family. Which brings us to:
**CasanovaWannabe: Hector beds almost every woman in the story. Why is he a "wannabe", then? [[spoiler:[[GoldDigger They're all bleeding him dry.]]]]
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* DeathByDespair: [[spoiler:Both [[BigGood Marshal Hulot]] and [[BigBad Bette]].]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Valerie's death]] may be considered this for the Hulot family. The young, healthy woman who has a personal-vendetta-by-proxy against the Hulots, and who can manipulate any man to get what she wants, just happens to have [[spoiler:a "savage" ex-lover who is crazy enough to kill her, and he just happens to have access to this exotic weapon of murder which will give the victim enough time and incentive to ruminate over all her past sins and promptly decide to redeem herself by leaving almost all her fortune to the people whom she had, up until that point, considered her enemies]].
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:Valerie's death]] may be considered this for the Hulot family. The young, healthy woman who has a personal-vendetta-by-proxy against the Hulots, and who can manipulate any man to get what she wants, just happens to have [[spoiler:a "savage" ex-lover who is crazy enough to kill her, and he just happens to have access to this exotic weapon of murder which will give the victim enough time and incentive to ruminate over all her past sins and promptly decide to redeem herself by leaving almost all her fortune to the people whom she had, up until that point, considered her enemies]].
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** [[spoiler:Valerie's death]] may be considered this for the Hulot family. The young, healthy woman who has a personal-vendetta-by-proxy against the Hulots, and who can manipulate any man to get what she wants, just happens to have [[spoiler:a "savage" ex-lover who is crazy enough to kill her, and he just happens to have access to this exotic weapon of murder which will give the victim enough time and incentive to ruminate over all her past sins and promptly decide to redeem herself by leaving almost all her fortune to the people whom she had, up until that point, considered her enemies]].
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:Montes!]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Montes on Valerie: see entry above.]]
* TheDragon: Crevel assumes this role on account of [[spoiler:marrying Valerie.]]
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Montes on Valerie: see entry above.]]
* TheDragon: Crevel assumes this role on account of [[spoiler:marrying Valerie.]]
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* LoveMartyr: Adeline.
* MeaningfulName / PunnyName: Bette is a soundalike for "''bête''", French for "beast".
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* {{Revenge}}: A prime motive for Bette, among others.
* ScarpiaUltimatum / SadisticChoice: Crevel's attempts to solicit sex from [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Adeline]] seem doomed for failure. [[spoiler:They gain some traction, however, when the Hulot family's finances end up in the red. Adeline is therefore forced to choose between faithfulness to her husband and financial security. When she finally gives in, Crevel just [[MoralEventHorizon rejects and taunts her, gloating over his victory.]]]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: Oddly enough, Bette's villainy ''begins'' with quite a horrifying one!
--> The peasant-woman's face was terrible; her piercing black eyes had the glare of the tiger's; her face was like that we ascribe to a pythoness; she set her teeth to keep them from chattering, and her whole frame quivered convulsively. She had pushed her clenched fingers under her cap to clutch her hair and support her head, which felt too heavy; she was on fire. The smoke of the flame that scorched her seemed to emanate from her wrinkles as from the crevasses rent by a volcanic eruption
* VillainousBreakdown: Oddly enough, Bette's villainy ''begins'' with quite a horrifying one!
--> The peasant-woman's face was terrible; her piercing black eyes had the glare of the tiger's; her face was like that we ascribe to a pythoness; she set her teeth to keep them from chattering, and her whole frame quivered convulsively. She had pushed her clenched fingers under her cap to clutch her hair and support her head, which felt too heavy; she was on fire. The smoke of the flame that scorched her seemed to emanate from her wrinkles as from the crevasses rent by a volcanic eruption
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