Emma also does this and shows so during a passage of conversation between her and Rodolphe: " Do you love me?' ... Emma committed suicide because she feels that it would be of some consolation that she has a slightly romantic tragedy after a life of "sheer boredom-, in her opinion. ... This passage explains the extent that Charles was affected with her death. ... Her death eventually led to Charles' death, so in the end, she got exactly what she wanted: a romantic tragedy, just like the novels that she read. Anna also committed suicide in the same fashion. " There, she said t...

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[Shelley 80] Romantics believed that every person was born naturally good, but society corrupts the person and makes him bad. ... The authors of the Romantic era had an idea of themselves as creators. ... More people were able to read, but could not understand all of the allusions of the highly educated Romantic writers. ... This was significant since Germany was the center of the Romantic Movement. ... The Passage, by which Laurent traveled when he secretly met with Thérese, was described as dismal and scary. ...

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This is not to say that Charles was the most interesting, or romantic man in the husband drawer. ... Of course, she didn't make it audibly known that she wanted a romantic, beautiful, flowery, smooth living type of life, but she pursued this whenever she saw an opportunity. ... Emma was reading these books that contained the romantic themes that she loved so much way before she even met Charles. ... " This passage is explaining how the outside world and Emma's inside world are very unbalanced. ...

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Madame Bovary is filled with countless such witticisms passages thick with irony. ... He ruins her romantic expectations for her wedding and instead provides a country wedding complete with pigs, mud, farmers, and practical jokes. Flaubert seems to contrast every one of Emma's romantic expectations with filth. ...

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Because Alcott is teaching her young readers what it means to grow up, she must face the question of Jo's fate in the novel: will she remain independent and romantic, or will she conform to custom and marry? ... Barrie also comments on the ambivalent representations of childhood in the novel, such as this passage concerning Neverland: "Of course the Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no night-lights, and it was getting darker every moment, and where was Nana?... In this passage, it seems that Barrie is attempting to strike a bit of fear int...

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In the essay "Why the Novel Matters", Lawrence explores in his own way the Romantic concept of the relativity of parts and wholes to construct a doctrinal statement celebrating the novel over other fields of thought. ... So the superficial "logic" of this passage is conspicuously off: to refute the notion that the body is merely a vessel for the soul, he "proves" that skin and bone are just as "alive" as blood is. ...

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