L'Île des esclaves

Marivaux's play on the "master-valet" reports in a colour edition, adapted to all the reader profiles and enriched with many educational tools. In connection with the study objects "Individual and society: confrontations of values" (4th) and "Denunciate the traverses of society" (3rd). The textAfter their sinking, Iphicrat and Euphrosine, accompanied by their valets Arlequin and Cléanthis, find themselves on an island where a strange law reigns. The time of their stay, the masters are thus forced – to heal themselves from their pride – to exchange their role with their servants. From this inversion is born a satirical comedy with the rhythm removed, which invites us to reflect on the relations of social domination. The quote "You have been their masters, and you have done wrong; they have become yours, and they forgive you; make your reflections on this." (Trivelin in L-Island of the slaves) The educational tools in the book• a foreword