El poder y la dominación masculina en el universo de Zola

In this essay, which can be considered as a complement to a previous one dealing with the woman in Zola's work, I try to explain the male concept within Zola's philosophy. For that purpose, I have made a diachronic study about the concept of man in different authors and moments in history, specially in the XIX century french society and focusing on male aspects such as action, possession and brutalization, specifically emphatized by the power of sexuality. These caracteristics, in Zola's work, together with the wide range of male actantcs, have been studied in four states: aristocracy, rniddle class, clergy and proletariat. In conclusion, under Zola's point of wiew, since the moment in which man appeared in nature, he has only had one principie: he is the center of creation and ali other beings, including women, are centered around him.