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Juliette is a novel written by the Marquis de Sade and published 1797 – 1801, accompanying de Sade's 1797 version of his novel Justine. While Justine, Juliette's sister, was a virtuous woman who consequently encountered nothing but despair and abuse, Juliette is an amoral nymphomaniac murderer who is successful and happy.
Mar 26, 2024 · Juliette is Justine’s sister. A character “in possession of some wit and aptitude,” Juliette is an unrepentant libertine.
- Alexander Howard
Juliette is about a thousand pages of insane violent orgies interspersed with scenes where the perpetrators and survivors dine and discuss aspects of nihilistic philosophy. These are not normal orgies. They often involved killing, torture and necrophilia. Juliette even threw her own child on a fire at the suggestion of one of her lovers after sex.
In the first two versions, when she finishes her sad tale, Justine is recognized by Juliette as her long-lost sister, Juliette's rich and powerful lover succeeds in rescuing her from the gallows, and she goes to live with them in their château.
Juliette and Justine lived in a nunnery, where the abbess of the nunnery corrupted Juliette (and attempted to corrupt Justine too). However, Justine was sweet and virtuous. When the abbess found out about Bertole's death, she threw both girls out.
Jan 29, 2021 · It is told in first person by Justine, as she recounts to her listeners all of her life’s woes and troubles, and each misfortune that befalls her one after the other since she was a child up to her early 30s.
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While Justine focuses on a girl who is punished for being virtuous, Juliette focuses on her titular sister, who is rewarded for her vice. Set in the 1770 and 1780s, Juliette starts off as a young girl raised in a nunnery, but later joins a brothel in her teenage years.
