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expectation she must live according to, due to the strong influence it has on her state of mind. Within each city Emma undergoes specific types of emotions and attachments that essentially become the drive to her great depression. Tostes, Yonville, Rouen, and Paris bind together for a single purpose in order to display the overall theme of dissatisfaction and repression, which ultimately become the reason for Emma’s ironic death. The city of Tostes commences the start of Emma’s journey by serving

exponent of literary realism in his country. Flaubert’s father was a senior surgeon at a large hospital in Rouen and his mother was the daughter of a doctor. He started writing at a very young age, probably somewhere around eight years old, and his parent’s influence in his life can be seen throughout his works, especially in Madame Bovary. During the 1830s, Flaubert attended the Collége Royal de Rouen. When he was fourteen began focusing more on his own writings. He was inspired by his unconsummated love

shattering of her Romantic ideals...[caused her to carry] to the second amour fewer illusions...that Leon had grown tired [still] filled her with bitterness..." (Green 233). The affair with Leon involved many trips to Rouen, and it is interesting to note that "...the outings to Rouen lose their charm as her love for Leon turns to disgust" (Turnell 106). Her affair with Leon ended when it became stagnant, although she was in no less pain than before.   Of all Emma's reasons to wish for

remembered for his debut novel madam Bovary. Flaubert, as a author, was notoriously a compulsive, avoiding such techniques as cliché and finding “le mot juste” (“the right word”). Flaubert was born in Rouen, the son of a doctor. author began writing as a toddler and was educated at the lyceumin Rouen. In 1840, he emotional to Paris so as to review law, however found the town distasteful. one in every ofthe few folks he met in Paris was the writer poet, United Nations agency wrote Les Miserables. From

becomes fed up and realizes that he is "a sad creature" (Flaubert 78), she begins her little quest to find the right man through a binge of affairs and broken hearts.         The author of Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, was born in Rouen France (Kunitz 280).  He grew up in a rather wealthy and prosperous family as a result of his father being a successful doctor (Kunitz 280).  This could easily relate to the fact that Charles Bovary was a doctor too.          

Selfishness and Misguided Views in Madame Bovary The majority of Gustave Flaubert's 1857 classic novel, Madame Bovary , tells of the marriage and two adulterous affairs of one lady, Madame Emma Bovary. Emma, believing she is in love, agrees to marry the widower doctor who heals her father's broken leg. This doctor, Charles Bovary, Jr., is completely in love with Emma. However, Emma finds she must have been mistaken in her love, for the "happiness that should have followed this

Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans," was born in 1412 in Domrémy, Bar, France. A national heroine of France, at age 17 she led the French army to victory over the British at Orléans. Captured a year later, Joan was burned at the stake as a heretic by the English and their French collaborators. She was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint more than 500 years later, on May 16, 1920. Joan is an excellent example of an adaptive leader in history. Joan of Arc was born during the long war between

Flaubert as Emma in Madame Bovary          During the Nineteenth Century, Europe experienced a literary movement known as Romanticism. This movement "valu[ed] emotion, intuition, and imagination" (Rosenbaum 1075). Gustave Flaubert, born in 1821, grew up during this innovative movement and became entranced by the romantics. Unfortunately, Romanticism was a "passing affair in France," and young Flaubert realized it consistently encouraged illusions it could not satisfy" (Bart 54). His later

The Timeless Truth of Madame Bovary           Written in 1857, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary has become a literary classic. Emma Bovary is a middle class country girl with a taste for rich things; she marries a doctor and has a little girl. Her husband, Charles, adores her and thinks that she can do no wrong. He overlooks the sign of her adultery, telling himself that her unhappiness is caused from her poor health, and forgives her excessive spending. Madame Bovary's excessive desires seem

This attitude of Emma is most apparent in a scene towards the end of the novel in which Emma attends a masquerade ball with Leon in Rouen. After the dance they go to a seedy restaurant where Emma has a fainting spell. After recovering, "she thought of Berthe, sleeping in the maid's room back in Yonville" (252). After a loud cart rumbles by, disrupting her train of thought, the next