David is luckier, his stupidity is in a way self-imposed exile, so in fact, the two stories, although they are both man and the world, have completely different endings. For Claudel, the whole outside world has always been malicious and cruel to her. But from another point of view, the nightmare-like torture she endured may be regarded as a distorted projection of her inner passion to the outside world.
Her destruction is not necessarily the only way for an artist, but an eternal exile as a woman.
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