Nana

Main Ideas

• Critique of bourgeois society and its morals
• Depiction of decline and degradation through the main character
• Exploration of the environment's influence on the individual
• Issue of social inequality
• Role of women in society and their objectification
• Exposure of hypocrisy and double standards of the upper class
• Influence of money and power on human relationships
• Theme of the destructive force of passion and sexuality
• Contrast between outward glamour and inner emptiness