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Corruption and Ambition are related to each other 

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Corruption and Ambition are related to each other 

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In Paris, the only way to ensure you reach your goals and ambitions is through corruption. Ambitions and corruption go hand in hand. Rastignac has recieved advice from his cousin to use people to achieve what he wants in life. The Vicomptesse also tells him to guard his heart so people would not use him instead. She also comes up with a plan for Rastignac's success, effortlessly signifying she is used to the politics that goes around in Paris

Rashmi Salgaonkar

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Society is corrupted everyone wants to gain their ambition by using others as an instrument or tool for example we see father Goriot uses money to exploit the people who were hungry during the French revolution, he sells the flour for ten times it's cost to make more money. And even Rastignac plans to use Delphine for his personal ambition to get wealthy. Moreover Paris is responsible for the corruption and ambition in the society. Ambition is something which is common in Paris and corruption is the only sure shot method to achieve the goal they want. In this novel every social relationship is impure and corrupted. Rastignac's cousin advices him to protect his heart but she tells him that he can use others heart for his selfish motive. This was the conditions of the society in Paris.

-Tanuja padsalgi

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In the text Old Goriot, in order to get success people are use others as ladder and  object to create  a network to utilize and discard as per their needs. Corruption is the only key to get success. One need to be self centered to achieve his goal.

Sanjana Ghadi

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Corruption:
Corruption was very important in this novel. Paris play an important role in corrupting the people. Father Goriot was also corrupt. He increased the rate of flour. He made people suffered.

Ambition: Vicomtesse adivce for his cousin Rastignac not to trust anyone and to make others to be useful to acheive your own goal. In this we see in order to gain ambitions one needs to lead life in corruption. Vicomtesse gives advice to Rastignac to seduce Delphine the second daughter of Goriot.

Alisha

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How to achieve success, a person can exploit other person's weakness. People are tools that can be descarded when there is no use of them anymore. No realation are genuine. And to guard youself so no one can take advantage of your weakness.

Siya Shyam Fatarpekar

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We see in this story that to achieve something or the other everyone has to go from the phase of corruption to achieve something just as yhe way some characters  go towards their goals by exploiting others . In order one to gain ambitions one needs to be corrupt .
Aleta Dsouza

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Old goriot was a corrupt as when there was a scarcity of grain he sold flour ten times its cost and made lot of money from it.

Kalpana

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criticism tells us that in Paris the ambition and corruption goes hand in hand. All the characters social ties are based on manipulation and are not pure. People see others as an object to be used and dumpped. Characters goes towards achieving their goals by exploiting others. Vicomtesse advices her cousin Rastignac to guard himself , not to trust anyone and to make others useful for own goals and as Delphine is desperate to be connected with the court she will be useful for him and thus Delphine becomes important step for Rastignac success as success and power is very important in Paris.

Sheleja Posnaik 22EN18

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De balzak tries to point out that the characters in order to achieve their means they fall into corruption and sucess is seen as the important aspect in paris. Vicomtesse advices restingnac to  be self centred.

Maithali gaude

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This is a tale of extraordinary ambitions, societal pitfalls and prejudice where Balzac takes a penetrating look into the human nature, concocting a powerful and nuanced drama of parental love, blind hope and the limits of the human drive to succeed. Paris is compared with success as the writer has illustrated characters. It reveals the true nature of Paris. Corruption & ambition plays a pivotal role in Paris
NAIK SHAMESH
22EN12

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New aristocracy it's a new social class that came up during the aristocracy, they don't have noble bloods. Rastignac has old money, his background is rich. Vicomtesse has an affair with M.D Ajuda Pinto, nobel man form Portugal. The Duchess doesn't know about the Rastignac is cousin he committed social blunder. People were also corrupt when it came to financial aspect . This we can see how Father Goriot sold wheat flour in double the amount of money during food shortages. Thus they made money through illegal activities.

Mayur Patil

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We see how Vicomtesse brainwashed rastignac. She gives him life lessons for making him ready to live his life in Paris.
She ask him to be cold blooded  and to take advantage of others to achieve success thought corruption. she also encourages him to have affair with most beautiful and wealthy lady like Delphine as without success he is nothing in Paris.

Kiran

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Ambition of the people in Paris is led to the social mobility. In order to Achieve success in career, one needs to get corrupt, either by morally or financial corrupt . People were trained to manipulate psychologically specially those who utmost in need of to raise a social status , to take advantage of them. We can see how Rastignac is taking advantage of Delphine, who is very much envious about her sister. Similarly, people in Paris had treated every single person as an object. On the other hand financial corruption can be seen when Father Goriot sold flour twice the amount when France was facing utmost lack of food. In this way New Aristocrats made their money and change social status.

Prajakta Rane

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Most of the characters are concern about the social class in the novel and from the advice of Vicomtesse , we can say that the ambition in Paris is to maintain your social mobility and one should be corrupt to achieve their goals in life and to climb the social ladder.
Corruption, exploitation and selfishness is the only method through which you can achieve your goals.

Sramishtha Parsekar
22EN14

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Ambition that leads to Corruption as displayed in Balzac's _Old Goriot_ 

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Ambition that leads to Corruption as displayed in Balzac's _Old Goriot_ 

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The new aristocracy was a new social class which came up after French Revolution however it was not treated with the same respect as the old aristocracy. Through his characters he attempts to comment on individuals' attempt to move climb the social ladder through the characters of Rastignac and others. However, the means that they use is of corruption and manipulation in order to gain what they want. In order to survive in the Parisian society, the only way, is to exploit others and take advantage of others and climb the social ladder, because in Paris success is everything.
- Mayuresh Gaokar

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De Balzac was a royalist conservative. His political sentiments lies within the monarchy.
M. d'Ajuda Pinto is a Portuguese man. He is about to marry a woman in the family of Rochefide. Vicomtesse says that the Rochefides are the new aristocrats.
Vicomtesse also advises Rastignac that corruption is the only way to achieve goals in Paris. She offers him a plan.She advises Rastignac to persue Delphine the younger daughter of Goriot. Delphine becomes an important step to Rastignac to enter the world of corruption.
Shrimi Fondekar

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It is observed that Eugène de Rastignac is an inherently good natured as he is moved to tears after hearing Father Goriot's story. But this very same story that inspired sympathy also was used as a warning when one does not guard his heart. Even this well meaning advice is a product of Vicomtesse experience in Paris and the values she leaned in order to adapt to a ruthless environment where the primordial law of survival of the fittest is followed despite ironically Paris being a civilized city, this reflects the importance of power in the novel.

Jayanth

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Advised to Rastignac, how to climb social ladder. 

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Advised to Rastignac, how to climb social ladder. 

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Cousin of Rastignac advice Rastignac that in order to achieve your goal in Paris you have to be corrupt. Because Paris, ambition and corruption are interlinked. She advised him to be selfish, self important, or self certain. And make use of people around you to get closer to your ambition.
Also in today's class we get to know about Goriot that he was corrupt, by rising the cost of flour by ten time the actual cost . And about his daughters. Delphine used to envy her elder sister Etc.

Shivani kumbhar

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de Balzak attempts to point out how Paris' obsession with wealth and social status corrupts people's perception of life and reality.

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In this text we see power played an important role in Paris during French revolution.If an individual has a power,it will eventually lead him/her to success.It was class that determines the power.
Inorder to achieve ambition characters in novel are indulged in corruption.Peoples were used as tools in the text.Every single thing,every single object in this text are used and discarded.

Sanisha Mayekar
22EN10