L’IMAGE DU VILAIN DANS LE ROMAN DE RENART

Abstract

Renardian’s storytellers suggest to countryside men some images all deformed by their ideology of class. Thus, the rural constitute inside the tales an undistinguished race, considered as inferior. From a narrative and sociological point of view, this study focus on peasant has permits the best understanding of elements which enter in the representation of this character. Real or unreal elements, medieval ideology of the satire of the rustics characters, a reflect of the reality of the epoch, narratives constrained, enlarging necessities or droll exaggeration, hided or real intentions, all intermingle, merge, all enter in play of mutual interactions. However, in this tendency live on negative image, conventional and permanent of countryman which reveals of personal hatred expression of storytellers coming from the generation of aristocracy.

Keywords

• image
• literary and cultural stereotype
• peasant
• to be victim of.