Perfume essay questions

Grimal the tanner, the Marquis de La Taillade-Espinasse, Maître Baldini, and Maître Druot are all selfish cheaters, taking advantage of Grenouille for their own profit. Fortunately for Grenouille, these people are so self-centered that they do not notice that he is using them for his own selfish plans.

Answer: The perfumer Baldini is probably the human being who becomes closest to Grenouille during his lifetime as in some way a peer. Certainly Baldini profits the most from Grenouille, who gives him hundreds of formulas for perfumes.

It is important to note that Patrick Süskind is a German author brought up in the post-World War II era. His writing is dark, and his characters are like those in the Grimm fairy tales, with heroes as guilty as the villains. Heroes are heroes only because circumstances favor them. Grenouille apparently is evil by nature.

Word Count: 385 Perfume is a study of the darker side of human nature. It centers on a superhuman, Grenouille, whose extraordinary nose shows him certain truths about the world to which others are oblivious.