Comparison of Emma Bovary from Madame Bovary and The Underground Man
... So, when someone describes a person as being dangerous, other people tend to stay very far away from them and even attempt to extradite them from society. Both Gustave Flaubert and Fyodor Dostoevsky in their works “Madame Bovary” and “Notes from the Underground” painted two characters that were thought at the time to be dangerous to society. ... Emma Bovary, in factual terms, was the wife of a french health officer who was educated in a convent as a young girl and self-indulged with romance novels. ... The Underground man was a Russian store clerk who had no family growing up and was shunned by his schoolmates.