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    Madame Defarge's Revenge

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    The peasant family harmed by the Evremondes years ago was the family of Madame Defarge. Madame Defarge clarifies‚ “that peasant family so injured by the Evremonde brothers… is my family. Defarge‚ that sister of the mortally wounded boy upon the ground was my sister‚ that husband was my sister’s husband‚ that unborn child was their child

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    Madame Bovary

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    Madame Bovary: Homais

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    Mikael Janko March 19‚ 2013 Critical Practice Draft Characterization in Madame Bovary: Homais In literature‚ there are various (and many) ways of introducing a character. The simplest way‚ as Lodge proposes this “most important single component of the novel‚” is by providing a biographic summary or a physical description of a character. (Lodge‚ 67) The name Homais derives from the word ‘homai‚’ more than often traced and linked to Bhagavad Gita (A Hindu Scripture)‚ and whose translation predominantly

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    Madame Bovary Analysis

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    In Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary‚ the story predominately follows how Emma Bovary becomes disenchanted with her lifestyle as the wife of Charles Bovary and seeks to find the unobtainable life she so desperately dreams of from the books she reads. However‚ before all of that‚ Charles Bovary has a history of his own with a previous marriage and a dreary childhood. In the passage describing a request for his services and his journey to a distance farm‚ the descriptive imagery and juxtaposition of

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    Madame Cézanne Essay

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    Further into Cézanne’s career‚ portraiture was common. In his work‚ Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Armchair of 1890 (Figure 10)‚ Japanese influence cannot be denied. The “great simplification and flattening of modelling and color‚ the structural anchoring of the figure against the edges of the picture‚ and the horizontal weighting combined with a diagonal accent‚” (Berger 118) that Cézanne used in his painting were common features in Japanese work. Although Cézanne did not specify whether he viewed

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    Psychologists and evolutionary theologist teach that the heart can convince the brain‚ but the inverse is not true for the brain. That means people will most likely do what makes them feel good and not what is the best for them. Throughout the novel Madame Bovary the author Gustave Flaubert uses literary devices such as symbolism to express the idea that pleasure inhibits the progress of human aspiration. The first instance of pleasure inhibiting progress is in chapter one. Charles Bovary the main

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    In The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant‚ forms a jealous greedy character named Madame Loisel. She decided that she couldn’t go to the party without jewels and borrowed some from a friend‚ eventually losing them thus beginning her poverty. Because of her actions she is now worse off than she was when the story started. Madame Loisel’s misfortunes are because of her own actions and not because of fate. Madame Loisel is the jealous type who thinks she should be rich when she has all she needs. “She

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    through lived experience. The mimetic content of a novel‚ or its themes and ideas‚ are thought about in terms of their relation to our understanding of the world around us‚ how well it imitates that world or conflicts with it. Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is a classic nineteenth century novel with a unique and memorable central character in Emma Bovary‚ who is shown in a realistic and convincing social setting. Emma Bovary’s “present day reality‚”1 the setting of her life‚ her values and ideas

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    Carmen lives only for sensuality. She goes from one man to another. Carmen knows that she is free to stop relationships if she does not love the man anymore and that is fine‚ because the way she was raised allows her to act that was. She is an independent Gypsy woman. People of Gypsy culture are open-minded and willful. In the culture of the nineteenth century female Gypsies are characterized as strong‚ free-spirited‚ extraordinary‚ and arrogant. The romantic spirit of a Gypsy is considered absolutely

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    Madame Bovary was problematic in nineteenth century France because Flaubert glorified adultery and disgraced marriage. The problem with Emma was that there was no double standard in abuse and disrespect towards men. In Madame Bovary‚ men are problematically used as sexual entertainment because there was a double standard in nineteenth century France. Madame Bovary‚ or Emma‚ is problematic caused by her marriage‚ which she finds to be dull and mundane. Emma was problematic with her love affairs with

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