The novel, Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert is greatly comic. ... This comic aspect of Madame Bovary can only be appreciated when the novel is as a whole. ... Madame Bovary is filled with countless such witticisms passages thick with irony. ... Emma and Charles Bovary are also amusing. ... Although some may see Madame Bovary as a sad tale of failed romanticism and harsh reality, the novel may also be seen as one of great humor and hilarity. ...

• Word Count: 970
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In Madame Bovary, Flaubert pays close attention to minute details such as Emma's wedding dress, windows, cigar case, and flowers. ... In contrast with, at the end of chapter four, he ends it with, "When they left Tostes in the month of March, Madame Bovary was pregnant." ... Flowers are also used as a symbolic device in Madame Bovary. ... Flaubert makes Madame Bovary an interesting book by paying close attention to seemingly small details and loading them with symbolism. ... Even Emma Bovary herself is used as an object thus loosing her identity and self-respect by reducing herself to mer...

• Word Count: 1252
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In, "Madame Bovary," by Gustave Flaubert, the ways in which Emma was affected by the tales of romance and utopias that she read from her books deeply molded her into an impatient, bratty, foolish, and unrealistic woman, who essentially dug her own grave. Emma Bovary quickly grew very impatient with how things were going with her husband, Charles-regarding their marriage. ... Bovary proposed to Rodolphe the idea that," 'We would go and live elsewhere-somewhere!'... Madame Bovary Jr.'... Madame Bovary Jr.'...

• Word Count: 1202
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The novel Madame Bovary was written by Gustave Flaubert in 1856. ... In this novel, Charles Bovary, an undereducated doctor of medicine has two wives in his life. The first, Madame Dubuc, died. ... Charles Bovary first met Emma Rouault when he was on a medical call to fix her father's broken leg. ...

• Word Count: 1022
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Emma, the Antithesis of Victorianism The novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert takes place in France during the mid-1800s. ... This brought about a lot of opposition and people like Emma Bovary who realized "that a -------- Emma Bovary read romantic novels that told stories of great wealth and happiness. ... It all began with a man by the name of Charles Bovary who was becoming a doctor. ... Madam Bovary is a novel that depicts a women that breaks her Victorian ways in the pursuit of the glamorous life that was elaborated in her novels. ...

• Word Count: 804
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

An analysis of the relationships presented in the novels The Awakening and Madame Bovary will be given. ... (Chopin 181) In Madame Bovary, Emma is Charles' second wife. ... Lheureux represents one of the biggest underlying problems in Emma's life in Madame Bovary. ...

• Word Count: 3600
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The Piano written by Jane Campion and Madame Bovary written by Gustave Flaubert both express the joy and sorrow of life through the protagonist. ... However, Madame Bovary shows joy through Emma's affairs with Rodolphe and Léon and the Viscount who represented a life she could never have. ... The father of Emma's child, Berthe, was her husband Charles Bovary. ... (Page 86) Emma Bovary is portrayed in the novel as materialistic. ...

• Word Count: 1692
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School