The Social Contract · Character
Emile
Title character of Rousseau's earlier work on education, cited here.
minor
Also known as Emile, the Emile, The Emile
First appearance: i subject of the first book
Emile's tie to Montesquieu is one of the pressures that moves The Social Contract—worth meeting in the text, not only on a cast list.
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- Social
- Other
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- Political and Legal Thinkers
- Protagonist
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Story tension across the book — this chapter sits in Exposition.
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- Escalation
- Breaking point
- Aftermath
- Closing
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- Montesquieu
social · ambivalent
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See Emile in i subject of the first book