We intimately feel what Emma is feeling – but Flaubert does not force us to sympathize with her (or any other character).Totals: we are human and therefore flawed.Intimate detail / Emma (“her heart beating again, and the blood flowing through her flesh like a river of milk”).Great one-liners pointing out human flaws (“He has just been awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor”).A mish-mash (sometimes straightforward, sometimes descriptive).Society is, more often than not, just flat-out wrong!.Flaubert cruelly underlines the series of depressing UNROMANTIC (hence, the realism) points in the book:.Emma’s focus: fashion, sex, and excitement BUT she feels trapped by polite society rules & a mundane marriage (wrong town, wrong marriage, wrong century).Emma Bovary feels like the women from Sex in the City might feel in the middle of Kansas.Realism: one of the best examples of a realist piece of literature.“Nature intented women to be our slaves … What a mad idea to demand equality for women!” – Napoleon I.“No trust is to be placed in women.” – Homer.“Nature has given woman so much power that the law cannot afford to give her more.” – Samuel Johnson.“A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to comprehend his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire.” –Isreal Zangwill.What should a woman with young children do?.The trial actually had the opposite effect to the one the authorities had hoped for after Flaubert was acquitted, the book became a smash hit.As a result, Flaubert was put on trial in January of 1857 for obscenity the novel seemed too risqué for the tastes of the government.Originally appeared in installments in a magazine called La Revue de Paris in 1856, which caught the eye of the censors.
Madame Bovary Vaughn’s Nutshell Presentation of the Novel
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