According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term realism can be defined as, "an inclination or attachment to what is real; tendency to regard things as they really ... Charles is a real character with simple desires. He has no worldly ambition or status. There was nothing striking about him: he played during recess, worked in study hall, paid attention in class, slept soundly in the dormitory, ate heartily in the refectory (Flaubert 854). Flaubert purposely gives Charles Bovary such characteristics in order to ... from that character's point of view by combining grammatical and other feat...

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