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    Il a été dit que la véritable originalité des grands romanciers réalistes était « d’avoir transformé la réalité vulgaire en œuvre d’art ». En vous appuyant sur l’étude précise de «Madame Bovary»‚ vous justifierez ce jugement. ? Introduction Le réalisme classique faisait du beau et du laid la matière de son art. Mais il en proscrivait le médiocre et comme le disait La Bruyère‚ on ne saurait représenter « un laquais qui siffle » ou « un homme dans sa garde-robe ». La grande originalité des écrivains

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    What Are We Doing Here?: The Pursuit of the Essence of Consciousness in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse In her novels Woolf examines the relationships and inner-workings of people ’s minds and how these portrayals are connected to Woolf ’s own ideals regarding life and death. In two of her most popular novels‚ Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse‚ Woolf examines these issues‚ leaving the paramount investigation of life unanswered and leaving the reader with the ability

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    Madame Defarge

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    Madame Defarge was a symbol of destruction: her archetype was destruction. Although she could have been an avenger‚ her methods and sympathy for others proves her to be a destroyer‚ as she destroys the innocent‚ her own humanity‚ and she does destroy herself. She does what she can to destroy the ancestors of her own cause. As the Evrémonde family destroyed her mentally‚ she tries to annihilate them physically. Many have given her sympathy‚ including the wife of the cheating aristocrat‚ stating

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    Ms Dalloway and the Hours

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    extremely thought provoking and tells an adapted story about Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway in a very interesting way. It is not a movie that copies the novel Mrs. Dalloway‚ but takes it’s themes and pushes the boundaries further to create new ideas that are more updated with its time. The storyline is a bit twisted from that of Mrs. Dalloway with Clarissa’s life being too coincidental with the characters’ names from Mrs. Dalloway‚ making lots of references to the actual novel itself. Both subjects occur

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    Madame Butterfly

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    Madame Butterfly Madame Butterfly is a short story that exemplifies an eastern culture’s conscious and subconscious attempt at socially adaptation to a westernized world. In Nagasaki‚ Japan‚ before the First World War‚ Lieutenant Pinkerton of the United States Navy marries Cho-Cho-San or Madame Butterfly‚ a young geisha. For Pinkerton‚ it is just a casual affair. He feels‚ despite being warned by the American Consul‚ that she will treat the relationship with similar levity. Ultimately‚ for Cho-Cho-San

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    12 December 2000 Social Classes in "Madam Bovary" Striving for higher social status has been the downfall of many people just as it was the destruction of Emma Bovary. In Nineteenth Century France‚ several class existed: peasant or working class‚ middle class‚ upper-middle class‚ bourgeois‚ and aristocrats. In the story‚ "Madame Bovary‚" we see a number of individuals striving to move themselves up to the bourgeois‚ a status that is higher than the working class but not as high as nobility

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    illness‚ consumerism and suicide in ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘The Hours’. The topics of suicide is and illness are very prominent throughout both ‘Mrs Dalloway’ a novel written by Virginia Woolf and ‘The Hours’ a film based on the novel. Throughout ‘The Hours’ it shows the suicide of Virginia Woolf in 1941‚ in the 1950’s housewife Laura Brown’s‚ decision to not commit suicide and Clarissa Vaughan having to deal with the suicide of a close friend. In ‘Mrs Dalloway’ we are presented with suicide through

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    Test: Would Elizabeth Bennet or Emma Bovary considered heroes? Pride and Prejudice and Madame Bovary‚ two books written in the nineteenth century shared by two of the stars most famous and controversial as well as common themes and motifs that are easily contrasted or opposed. With the first sentence in Pride and Prejudice can make the entry of recurring action will be present in both novels. "It is a truth That a single aknowledged Universally man in possession of a good fortune must-be in want

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    Madame Defarge's Secrets

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    secrets within them‚ but when they are discovered‚ they greatly affect the novel as a whole. When Madame Defarge‚ Sydney Carton‚ and Dr Manette each share their profound secret‚ the information that they share changes the lives of those who learn the secrets. Madame Defarge has a big secret in which she wants revenge for which is a cause of much of the action that thus takes place. The reason that Madame Defarge’s secret has such a great effect on the actions set forth in the novel is because her husband

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    Puccini’s opera "Madame Butterfly" and David Henry Hwang’s play after "M.Butterfly" Concept memorable‚ "Madame Butterfly" this work speaks in an American seaman Pinkerton married a Japanese geisha Cho Cho‚ they spend after a period of happy time‚ Pinkerton left. Cho Cho for the Pinkerton gave birth to a child‚ journeying to wait for Pinkerton to come back. Three years later‚ Pinkerton with his American wife came to Cho Cho to have children. Cho Cho despair and died. "M.Butterfly" is Hwang’s masterpiece

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