Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert�s tells the story of a woman�s quest to make her life into a novel. Emma Bovary attempts again and again to escape the ordinariness of her life by reading novels, daydreaming, moving from town to town, having affairs, and buying luxurious items. One of the most penetrating debates in this novel is whether Flaubert takes on a romantic and realistic view. Is he a realist, naturalist, traditionalist, a romantic, or neither of these in this novel? According to B. F. Bart, Flaubert �was deeply irritated by those who set up little schools of the Beautiful -- romantic, realistic, or classical for that matter: there was for him only one Beautiful, with varying aspects...� (206) ...
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described for an entire chapter by Flaubert, that awakens in her a struggle against what she perceives as confinement. Her education at the convent is the most significant development in the novel between confinement and escape. Vince Brombert explains �that the convent is Emma�s earliest claustration, and the solitations from the outside world, or through the distant sound of a belated carriage rolling down the boulevards, are powerful allurements.� (383) At first, far from being bored, Emma enjoyed the company of the nuns; �the atmosphere of the convent is protective and
soporific; the reading is done on the sly; the girls are assembled in the study� are all primary images of confinement and immobility. (Brombert 383) As this chapter progresses, images of escape start to dominate and Emma begins to become more romantically inclined.
In romantic fashion, she seeks her own, individual satisfaction, she is necesarily doomed in Flaubert�s eyes. Complete love he envisaged as ...
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