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    Deconstructing Authorship In his first paragraph Barthes uses Balzac’s Sarrasine’s castrato character’s inner voice to examine who’s really doing the talking in a written work‚ since there are layers of meaning in the identity within the particular quote. One of my favorite aspects of post-modernist literature is its playfulness with the notion of authorship and recursive identity within a given work. John Barth’s "Giles Goat Boy‚" a favorite and seminal work for me‚ starts with a forward deliberately

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    Gina Garifo Intro to the Novel Prof Sesto Writing Assignment #1 Madame Bovary and the Religious Significance Madame Bovary‚ a novel by Flaubert’s was filled with many different consequences to all sorts of actions‚ unmoral and disgraceful acts; especially for Emma. The majority of Emma’s life is filled with sin; she is an adulterous‚ lying woman who ends up taking her own life. Her life is disgrace as well as a mockery of religion. She starts off as a Christian. From a young

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    novel‚ Madame Bovary‚ Emma Bovary outwardly conforms and inwardly questions her relationship with her husband‚ Charles. Emma’s actions and thoughts cause a tension which she realizes affects the other characters in the novel. Although she knows her actions are not moral‚ she continues with her affairs. Also‚ knowing Charles stupidity‚ she continues to lie to him while spending all of his money without his knowledge. All these factors contribute to the meaning of the book. Emma Bovary inwardly

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    Review: Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy‚ published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Widely regarded as a pinnacle in realist fiction‚ Tolstoy considered Anna Karenina his first true novel . The character of Anna was likely inspired‚ in part‚ by Maria Hartung ‚ the elder daughter of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin . Although Russian critics dismissed the novel on its publication as a "trifling romance of

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    Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert and The Awakening by Kate Chopin both show the life of a woman in a half-dreamy stupor‚ overzealously running around looking for something but not knowing what it is they are looking for. They feel immensely dissatisfied with the lives they are stuck with and find suicide to be the only alternative. The two books‚ Madame Bovary‚ written in 1857 and The Awakening‚ written in 1899‚ both have the theme of confinement and free-will‚ yet differ vastly with respect to

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    26 March 2013 Anna Karenina Psychological Aspect The psychological aspect of this novel appears in Part Three in the relationship between Anna and Vronsky. This is the first time since they met that we begin to see a disconnect in their relationship. “At that time he had considered himself unhappy‚ but happiness lay ahead; while now he felt that his greatest happiness already lay behind him. She was completely different now from what she had been when he saw her first. Both morally and physically

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    The novels Madame Bovary written in 1986 by Gustave Flaubert and The Awakening written in 1899 by Kate Chopin are strikingly similar. The similarities are so stark that many question if Madame Bovary served as a template for Kate Chopin when she wrote The Awakening. A large majority of the similarities in the novels revolves around the two main characters in the respective novels‚ Edna Pontellier in The Awakening and Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary. These women both experience unique lives that differ

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    In the novel Madame Bovary‚ Gustave Flaubert displays through the use of symbolism the moral corruption that eventually consumes Emma’s being. Flaubert uses a combination of characters and objects to illustrate her impending downfall. At a young age‚ she harbors idealistic romantic illusions‚ longs for sophistication‚ sensuality‚ and passion‚ and descends into fits of extreme boredom and depression when her life fails to match the romantic novels she treasures. Emma’s bourgeois aspirations set her

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    The love story –sweet and daring for some‚ sordid and offending for others-- between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky is compelling and tragic. Anna and the Count have an affair‚ causing an uproar in society. Because of the double standards of the time‚ while Vronsky may still hold his head high in society‚ Anna is forced to hold her chin down and hide her shame. Anna turns to Vronsky ─a dashing military man─ as a refuge from her passionless marriage to a pompous‚ despotic bureaucrat; a move that

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    An Education in Escape: Madame Bovary and Reading A theme throughout Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is escape versus confinement. In the novel Emma Bovary attempts again and again to escape the ordinariness of her life by reading novels‚ having affairs‚ day dreaming‚ moving from town to town‚ and buying luxuries items. It is Emma’s early education described for an entire chapter by Flaubert that awakens in Emma a struggle against what she perceives as confinement. Emma’s education at the convent

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