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Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert's Novel, Term Paper
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Flaubert's novel also presents an overwhelming dissatisfaction over the French bourgeoisie at that time through the eyes and in the person of Emma. She only reflects the aspirations of her time for refinement and sophistication of the higher social classes where she desires to belong. Those of her class do not have the wealth and nobility of those in higher levels. Those above are materialistic, indulgent and wasteful without discrimination. That is how Emma wants her life to be like. She wants to be indulgent and wanton like them but she does not have their means and so she borrows money indiscriminately until she can no longer come to terms with it. The pain of abandonment by the men who seem to give her personal importance, a frustrating marriage, a demanding motherhood to Berthe, utter financial insolvency and a total disillusionment with her personal limitations all combine to push her to end her life to end all her failures and disappointments.
To this day, women's status in society remains unstable and unsettling, but more so in Flaubert's time. Using Madame Bovary's person, with which Flaubert identifies, he expresses his rejection of the middle class and mocks its pretensions of knowledge and learning in place of its inhuman acts. In the end, the only way he solves Emma's and his discontent is to eliminate her from the scene, where she cannot find justification and redemption from her excesses and infidelities. But in his language, Flaubert means to fault society for these flaws and disastrous consequences.
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Flaubert, Gustave. Hall, Geoffrey, trans. Madame Bovary (1857). Paperback. Oxford World's…
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Flaubert, Gustave. Hall, Geoffrey, trans. Madame Bovary (1857). Paperback. Oxford World's Classics, June 2, 2005
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