Category: Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary is a realistic novel criticizing romanticism written by Gustave Flaubert in 1856. This version was translated by Mildred Marmer. It is set in 1898 Normandy, France. It is about a provincial life of a middle-class woman named Emma. She wishes for a perfect life, but never achieves it. This novel was challenged in…

In the novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, Ive noticed some stylistic features that he had used in the novel, those stylistic features are symbolism, imagery, allegory, and imaginary. With Emmas appearance, it uses the stylistic features of symbolism, imagery, and allegory by how she transgresses, becoming more beautiful when she grows up. Another stylistic…

In Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary, he illustrates the realistic struggle of a womans life in the mid-eighteen hundreds when Bourgeois women lived restricted lives. The heroine Emma Bovary rebels against the traditional behaviour of a woman, by portraying herself as the opposite. Through various masculine modes, specifically, her display of male fashion, Flaubert develops this…

When analysing Madam Bovary as a character, it is important investigate all facets. This will not only ensure a greater understanding of her actions, but will give a more informed decision for the extent to which Emma deserves sympathy. Gustave Flaubert uses Madame Bovary to express women’s obsession with the bourgeois life in nineteenth-century France,…

Women in society have always been seen as inferior to men. With that being said, there has always been a social construct that men have more power and responsibility than women. In Madame Bovary (1857) Gustave Flaubert manages to show how Emma is simultaneously the perfect woman and the nightmare woman of this period. Through…

The representation of gender in the works of both Zola’s Thérèse Raquin and Flaubert’s Madame Bovary could, on the surface, be considered to hold more similarities than differences. The situation of the young wife, a focal point in both novels, is especially crucial and how the two titular characters in their respective novels have to…

Literary realism is a part of the realist art movement that started in 19th century France and lasted until the early 20th century. It began as a reaction to the romanticism and the rise of bourgeoisie in Europe and it sought to convey a truthful and objective vision of contemporary life. Realism emerged in the…

Monsieur Lheureux and Shylock are merchants that possess three common negative character traits: greed, jealousy, and uncharitable. Being both from the same occupation, their lives revolve around money. They purposely target citizens for their motives. Monsieur Lheureux in Gustave Flauberts, Madame Bovary and Shylock in William Shakespeares, The Merchant of Venice deliberately drive the protagonists…