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19th Century Literary Heroines The Woman in White and Madame Bovary

In five pages this paper considers the Victorian concept of feminine identity as depicted in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White an...

Innocence Lost in Literature

In five pages this paper examines how innocence is corrupted in a literary comparison and contrast of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bo...

Overview of the French Realist Period

nude, reclining on a chaise lounger. This can be said to have rocked the art world. Olympia, painted in 1863, and subjected to ha...

Madame Bovary as Naturalism

carried in the pockets of her apron...They were all love, lovers, sweethearts, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely pavilions, pos...

17th and 19th Century Literature and the Depiction of Women

In five pages this paper discusses how women were depicted in Tartuffe by Moliere, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, and Hedda Ga...

Flaubert Questions

pattern her ideas of motherhood from a particular novel. She attends to all the details of her household, making sure Charles vest...

Madame Bovary, A Feminist Perspective

This essay pertains to Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" and considers the novel from a feminist perspective. Eight pages in length, a on...

Inward Lives of 2 19th Century Women

and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...

Themes in French Literary Classics

daughters, only to have them essentially through it all in his face for it was not enough. This simple understanding presents us w...

Emma Bovary and Dmitri Gurov

less intelligent, intuitive and passionate than Emma, and yet he "receives an education as a health officer which equips him for a...

Gustave Flaubert's A Simple Heart and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

In four pages these works are compared in an analysis of the themes, plots, and major characters of each. There are no other sour...

How Gustave Flaubert and Miguel de Cervantes Thematize the Effect of Reading on the Imagination in Madame Bovary and Don Quixote

saving lives, and he was - in her view - incapable of providing her with sexual satisfaction or any type of emotional salvation. ...

Reading Romantic Fantasy and Living Reality in Don Quixote and Madame Bovary

lifetime - to become the knight-errant hero like those of the Round Table he always fantasized being. The life of a 50-year-old w...

A 'Madame Bovary' Marxist Interpretation

first two or three years" (Flaubert, 1982, 4). Clearly, everything came down to money not only for Emma but for Charles as well. I...

Heroism and its Characteristics

In 5 pages this paper examines how the characteristics of heroism are defined in such literary works as A Simple Heart by Gustave ...

Narrative Evolution

In seven pages the evolution of narrative are examined in a consideration of Scarlet and Black, Tristram Shandy, Madame Bovary, He...

The Use of an Affair as a Metaphor in Literature

the end get her into trouble with a loan shark. Eventually much of her and Charles property is confiscated. Her illicit affa...

"Faust" and "Madame Bovary"

who is, for a good many people, the most entertaining character in the play. Mephistopheles manipulates Faust so that he "loves an...

Three Versions of “Madame Bovary”

of her character. Just after she marries Charles, Flaubert tells us that before they had married she thought she was in love, but ...

Flaubert, Swift Comparison

this age, will not yield their parents a sum sufficient to cover what has been invested in raising them thus far (Swift). He then ...

French Romantic Literary Works and Their Similarities

separately and then are followed by a discussion about their similarities. The novels discussed are "Madame Bovary," "Pere Goriot,...

"Madame Bovary" and the Act of Reading

the morality of anyone who read the work, particularly women (Leonard 2010, p. 10). Such a fear stemmed from the then-popular conc...

The Jewish 'Father' Abraham

Michalowski explains, "Each person also had an additional, personal god" (Szulc, 2001, p. 90). A close interaction with this pers...

A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert and Religion

the marshes, its breath that pushed the clouds, its voice that made the bells ring sweetly; and she stayed in adoration, enjoying ...

Travel in the Writings of Rudyard Kipling, Gustave Flaubert, and Samuel Johnson

In six pages learning and adventure through travel are examined within the context of various writings by Kipling, Flaubert, and J...

Roles of Women in Mary Barton and Madame Bovary

In five pages this paper examines the domestic boundaries that dictated the roles of women during the 19th century in a considerat...

Far From the Maddening Crowd, Madame Bovary, and Marriage

to a place where she thinks that such fantasies can be obtained. Now, while such romance can be found, it is often tempered with a...

An Analysis of Madame Bovary

that a reader can visualize them and envision the place in which their story takes place; but to describe each corner of a room, e...

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

Modern Women, Feminism, and the Heroines of Madame Bovary, The Scarlet Letter, and Pride and Prejudice

This paper examines the feminist aspects of these nineteenth century novels in a comparative analysis of Emma Bovary, Hester Prynn...