In the nineteenth century, Gustav Flaubert was brought to trial for his novel, "Madame Bovary." ... This view fails to observe Madame Bovary for its artistic intention and purpose. ... Henry James praises Madame Bovary for its perfection, claiming that it "both excites and defies judgment. ... Madame Bovary reveals a picture of a woman who is miserable in the boredom of her mundane everyday life, and turns to adultery. ... In Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," there is no moral of the story. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are many different stylistic elements used throughout the novel Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert. ... These techniques are important in analyzing the novel of Madame Bovary as a whole and in understanding the several themes and motifs. ... He is also the deformed, repulsive creature who, throughout the book, symbolizes Emma's moral corruption. ... Evans implies that Madame Bovary is a novel about the dangers of reading romantic novels since Emma's image of romance developed from the books she read at the convent school. ... In general the essay vindicates Flaub...

• Word Count: 1106
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There are many different stylistic elements used throughout the novel Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert. ... These techniques are important in analyzing the novel of Madame Bovary as a whole and in understanding the several themes and motifs. ... He is also the deformed, repulsive creature who, throughout the book, symbolizes Emma's moral corruption. ... Evans implies that Madame Bovary is a novel about the dangers of reading romantic novels since Emma's image of romance developed from the books she read at the convent school. ... In general the essay vindicates Flaub...

• Word Count: 1106
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In, "Madame Bovary," by Gustave Flaubert, the ways in which Emma was affected by the tales of romance and utopias that she read from her books deeply molded her into an impatient, bratty, foolish, and unrealistic woman, who essentially dug her own grave. ... Madame Bovary Jr.'... Emma was reading these books that contained the romantic themes that she loved so much way before she even met Charles. ... A book can completely change anybody's mind if done the right way. ... Madame Bovary Jr.'...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the time before women's emancipation, the theme of a young woman's sexual and artistic growth sparked a national uproar. ... Louis Republic roared that the book committed "unutterable crimes against polite society" and "should be labeled `poison.'" ... Recent critics--like our reviewer--have been much kinder to The Awakening, one calling it "probably as near to a Madame Bovary as the period produced." But the contemporary criticism, though making the book famous, struck--as one of her defenders put it--"deep at the author's heart, even killing her desire to write." ...

• Word Count: 1100
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School