However , one could make the argument that the novelist was using Clara 's character as a means of denouncing English and French colonialism .
This character 's perhaps monstrous values and claims seem totally at odds with the humanism of Octave Mirbeau , a defender of Alfred Dreyfus .
One could make the argument that the novelist was using Clara 's character as a means of denouncing English and French colonialism .
This character 's perhaps monstrous values and claims seem totally at odds with the humanism of Octave Mirbeau , a defender of Alfred Dreyfus .