In the analytical essay “A Pox on Love: Diagnosing Madame Bovary’s Blind Beggar,” author Mary Donaldson-Evans explores the relationship between Gustave Flaubert’s “preoccupation with language and penchant for the medical metaphor”(3). In particular, she investigates Fluebert’s most perplexing allegorical character, the blind beggar. Within her essay Evans proposes to substantiate the beggar’s role by “pinpoint[ing] the beggar’s position [with]in the complex network of relationships connecting the characters”(4).

Evans’ review of the beggar’s emblematic significance to the story’s characters and themes gives a more in-depth revelation of Emma’s tragedy. Through her analysis of the biographical and historical data of France during the 18th century, diagnosis of the beggar’s illness, and illumination of his relation to Flaubert’s linguistic project, Evans presents

Some topics in this essay:
Gustave Flaubert’s, Madame Bovary, Evans Flaubert, Flaurbert’s Evans, Overall Flaubert’s, Subsequently Evans, Bovary Evans, France Evans, Louis Bouihet�a, Mary Donaldson-Evans--the, madame bovary, blind beggar, 19th century, relation flaubert’s linguistic, social religious, flaubert’s linguistic, relation flaubert’s, perfect figure, emma’s moral, beggar represents, novel madame bovary, blind beggar represents, detailed descriptions,