Ensayo El Perfume

Literatura contemporánea.


15 de Junio del 2012.

The perfume
Story of a murderer

Perfume is a novel where the narrator tells the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille a child born in France in a market under a smelly fish stall, his mother was beheaded because he was allowed to die on the job, give authority to child to nurse after a priest assigned nurses as these the instance of thechild was minimal, the last mother inspired her fear because he did not smell, so it was changing the boy home several times, until the priest who had taken charge of sending the child to be different nurses took him to a lady who choose to keep him, after the lady sold to Jean-Baptiste to a tanner.
The story begins telling the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille a child who was born in the midst ofthe plague, he was no ordinary child, had a gift as it had a smell the very sensitive Baptiste suffered the scorn of her mother since she suffered neglect and abuse since the birth of this does not care if he lived or died and that her other children had not resisted and died, in itself had no ethical or even I knew it was ethics, his mother was arrested and later beheaded by what he had done. Inthe past when still did not prohibit the death penalty people were sentenced to death for what became the mother of Jean, but over time and forbade it. The lacked motherly love and appreciation and social love that never got.

Because people without affection, become distant, vengeful, angry, sometimes they become bipolar otherwise seek to find that love that they were not given, the same thinghappened to Jean, over time, Baptiste suffered the rejection of people, fear that they felt for him, Grenouille adopted a decision in a vegetative, that's how he was surviving on people in the book Ethics for Amador mentions the use of force and ferocity that happens today people do not care if it hurts other people only interested in getting what you want from them, regardless of the consequencesof their actions.
Grenouille was sold to a tanner by Madame Gaillard, this action (people selling) we live in our own country because many people prostituted girls, sold people as slaves without realizing the damage they cause and the consequences they bring with it because after the same people who suffer abuse or harm that try to take it out on others and is becoming a chain which is sometimesit becomes tragedy.
This is called slavery, here in the Mexican Republic slavery is prohibited by the constitution, because people who commit this lack are prosecuted, but as before slavery was not prohibited so they did, in fact in the first constitutions was allowed the death penalty.

Baptiste struggle to get ahead no matter what obstacles they had to face after learning how to make a perfumeand give several formulas to Baldini for he create different perfumes. Jean left that city in the mountains he enjoyed being away from the smell of humans, spent several years living in a cave until he continued his journey by the smell of the first young virgin who had accidentally killed, I was drowning (it wrapped in a cloud of scent of the young), he realized in his body when he was alone hedid not have an odor, lacking this, he continued his journey to learn a way to extract the fragrance a body. His desire was also a treat, to get what he wanted no matter what, just his own irrepressible desire.
There are differences which are orders, customs and whims what we really felt or wanted Jean was a whim and a desire to get what he wanted anyway, also the life of others, began to killvirgins to which Baptiste drew their essence, the essence when removing very little but it was enough, the burning desire to get the essence of the most beautiful virgin girls had was while all the way left to a girl who was the prettiest, the smell was the most wanted Jean, to create the perfume essences would be 13 girls that he would need, the desire that had Jean Baptiste was invaluable...