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    The Influence of Reading on Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary Reading provides an escape for people from the ordinariness of everyday life. Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina‚ dissatisfied with their lives pursued their dreams of ecstasy and love through reading. At the beginning of both novels Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary made active decisions about their future although these decisions were not always rational. As their lives started to disintegrate Emma and Anna sought to live out their dreams

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    The Consumption of Food in Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary Since food is an essential part of one’s life‚ it is not surprising that we find frequent references to its consumption in novels of social realism‚ such as Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary. Food in literature can be used to symbolise all sorts of things‚ but in particular it can represent the personality of a character. This is because certain aspects of a character reveal themselves in the personal choice of eating a particular

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 Madame Bovary opens with Charles Bovary‚ who is dull and boring. He barely becomes a second-rate country doctor when his mother sets him up to marry a widow. After she dies‚ he is lonely and poor. This is when he meets Emma who is a daughter of one of his patients. When they get married‚ Emma is unsatisfied with the marriage and it’s not how she imagined it to be. She becomes depressed and ill and when she finds out she is pregnant‚ Charles moves out of the village in hopes

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    Leo Tolstoy hints at the imminent failure of Vronsky and Anna’s affair early on in Anna Karenina‚ long before their relationship begins to deteriorate. If examined closely‚ their fate becomes obvious during the steeplechase in Book Two. Vronsky races in the competition on his impressive new racehorse‚ Frou-Frou‚ who symbolizes Anna in this elaborate metaphor. Frou-Frou parallels Anna in virtually every aspect of this event and‚ ultimately‚ both of these stunning creatures are ruined by Vronsky’s

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    Anna Karenina “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Just as the famous quote goes‚ Tolstoy brought me back to the Russian society in the 19th century‚ leading me to ponder over the meaning of love‚ family‚ ethics‚ religion‚ as for the whole life. Anna Karenina is perhaps one of the greatest novels of all times. Anna shone like a bright light in Petersburg society and was admired by everyone. But she was married to the dull‚ cold Alexei Karenin‚ a

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    contentment. In Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina‚ Anna’s life is spiritually empty‚ and so she fills it with earthly pleasures (such as adultery) to fill the void. Levin‚ the other protagonist‚ also feels throughout the story as though something is missing in his life‚ but ends up actually discovering what will maintain his happiness in the long run. A main theme in the book is whether or not it is possible to preserve a happy life in a healthy way. Both characters‚ Anna and Levin‚ demonstrate how and

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    Madame Bovary Essay Question 1 Throughout Flaubert’s Madame Bovary the title character‚ Emma Bovary‚ is immoral. She constantly lies and mistreats her husband by cheating on him with multiple men and attempting to auction off his belongings. She is always disappointed with her husband‚ Charles‚ and‚ at most times‚ is even embarrassed to be associated with him. Just by cheating on Charles with Rodolphe and Leon‚ she performs more immoral tasks than most women even think about. If Emma had any

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    Anna Karenina Leeann Ho In Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina‚ the central character‚ Anna Karenina‚ is internally conflicted by the differing directions of her obligations and desires. Her chief obligation is to be a dutiful wife and mother to her husband‚ Alexei Karenin‚ and her son‚ Seryozha. Her commitment to this obligation is tested when she meets the young Count Vronsky and falls in love.

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    Flaubert and Madame Bovary: Comparisons We would like to think that everything in life is capable‚ or beyond the brink of reaching perfection. It would be an absolute dream to look upon each day with a positive outlook. We try to establish our lives to the point where this perfection may come true at times‚ although‚ it most likely never lasts. There ’s no real perfect life by definition‚ but instead‚ the desire and uncontrollable longing to reach this dream. In the novel Madame Bovary‚ it ’s

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    The Tragedy of Madame Bovary Madame Bovary is both a product of and a commentary on life in 19th century France. Gustav Flaubert’s wrote the novel in a realistic style‚ which was then the major movement in art and literature. This technique‚ which allowed him to honestly portray the nature of provincial life‚ was the perfect medium to showcase his opinion of the bourgeoisie and their preoccupations. He used mostly his main character‚ Emma Bovary‚ to show that the corrupt values of the middle

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