World Lit 3 Xiao Qian Zhang
Charlene Zhang
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English
Mrs. Sandoval Madame Bovary SOLLIDD 3 “She asked herself if by some other chance combination it would not have been possible to meet another man; and she tried to imagine what would have been these unrealised events, this different life, this unknown husband. Ail, surely, could not be like this one. He might have been handsome, witty, distinguished, attractive, such as, no doubt, her old companions of the convent had married. What were they doing now? In town, with the noise of the streets, the buzz of the theatres, and the lights of the ballroom, they were living lives where the heart expands, the senses bourgeon out. But she--her life was cold as a garret whose dormer-window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. She recalled the prize-days, when she mounted the platform to receive her little crowns, with her hair in long plaits. In her white frock and open prunella shoes she had a pretty way, and when she went back to her seat, the gentlemen bent over her to congratulate her; the courtyard was full of carriages; farewells were called to her through their windows; the music-master with his violin-case bowed in passing by. How far off all this! How far away!”(52). Flaubert uses long sentences and interrogative sentences to describe the feeling from Emma’s heart to her lif. Long sentences make readers feel Emma complain about a lot of her marriage, and feel a lot of dissatisfied with her husband. Interrogative sentences give readers a sense that Emma desire love in a consumingly negatively way, and the failed love with her husband grow up her mad action and destruction.
This passage is after Emma walk to the avenue of beeches at Banneville, and she keeps ask herself why she marriage with this man. The tone of this passage is furious and enraged. Flaubert uses literary strategies to give readers a imagination of Emma’s past, which is capital and
Per 4
English
Mrs. Sandoval Madame Bovary SOLLIDD 3 “She asked herself if by some other chance combination it would not have been possible to meet another man; and she tried to imagine what would have been these unrealised events, this different life, this unknown husband. Ail, surely, could not be like this one. He might have been handsome, witty, distinguished, attractive, such as, no doubt, her old companions of the convent had married. What were they doing now? In town, with the noise of the streets, the buzz of the theatres, and the lights of the ballroom, they were living lives where the heart expands, the senses bourgeon out. But she--her life was cold as a garret whose dormer-window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. She recalled the prize-days, when she mounted the platform to receive her little crowns, with her hair in long plaits. In her white frock and open prunella shoes she had a pretty way, and when she went back to her seat, the gentlemen bent over her to congratulate her; the courtyard was full of carriages; farewells were called to her through their windows; the music-master with his violin-case bowed in passing by. How far off all this! How far away!”(52). Flaubert uses long sentences and interrogative sentences to describe the feeling from Emma’s heart to her lif. Long sentences make readers feel Emma complain about a lot of her marriage, and feel a lot of dissatisfied with her husband. Interrogative sentences give readers a sense that Emma desire love in a consumingly negatively way, and the failed love with her husband grow up her mad action and destruction.
This passage is after Emma walk to the avenue of beeches at Banneville, and she keeps ask herself why she marriage with this man. The tone of this passage is furious and enraged. Flaubert uses literary strategies to give readers a imagination of Emma’s past, which is capital and