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The novel ‘Madame Bovary’ by Gustave Flaubert can be considered the archetypal realist novel through its portrayal of characters, and it’s attitudes towards the romantic literature, which proceeded it.
In part 2 chapter 2 of ‘Madame Bovary’ the protagonist, Emma Bovary states that, “I detest commonplace heroes and moderate sentiments, such as there are in nature.” The irony of this statement is of course that Emma Bovary is in fact a very commonplace hero with very moderate sentiments, and that the book in which she is a protagonist, condemns romantic sentiment as a disease. ... “Then she recalled the heroines of the books that she had read, and the lyric legion of these adulterous women began to sing in her memory with the voice of sisters that charmed her”(Flaubert 1857)
The colour imagery in Madame Bovary uses blue to represent Emma’s perception of romantic ideals as is demonstrated in the blue dressing gown she buys and earlier on in the novel when she sends a letter to Charles sealed in blue ink. ... It touches not only on Emma’s psychological response to Leon leaving, but it does so in keeping completely with what Flaubert defined as the Realist novel which Emma Bovary so clearly dislikes.
Approximate Word count = 984
Approximate Pages = 3.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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