Category: Madame Bovary

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…

Following the French Revolution, the French feudal society came to an end and the bourgeoisie middle-class emerged. A prominent novel from this time period is Gustave Flauberts Madame Bovary. He tells the story of Emma, a young woman who dreams of love and prosperity. Nonetheless, Emmas bourgeois aspirations are unattainable due to her marriage to…

In Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, the novel explores the themes of love and marriage, the unrealistic ideals of women, and the resulting dissatisfaction she faces due to these themes. As a child, Emma fully immerses herself into the world of romance novels consequently leading her to have unrealistic expectations of love and marriage. Because…

Gossip Girl is a TV drama series based on the book sequel of novelist Cecily Von Ziegesar. Von Ziegesar, wrote her first novel, at 2004 and her starting point was her private school days. Then 2007 the book series become a TV novella in the same name Gossip Girl and on air till 2012. Basically,…

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and Swann in Love by Marcel Proust provide examples of the way desire affects romantic relationships. Both novels depict their female characters as desired and having desires; however, the desire they possess and manifest in others is what contributes to desires death. In Madame Bovary, Emmas lack of desire for…

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…