Many writers from this time completely changed these expectations society had from romantic literature figures preceding them and took on entirely new perspective in their writing. ... For example, many of the characters in modern literature will face personal challenges in varying from the question of mental well being, the misery in relationships, and the concept of constant pressure to uphold any particular demographical position in society. ... Therefore, there are circumstances when a writer's personal experience can influence the story told in their novel, with changing the narr...

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He created a type of character, not a specific individual. ... Part of the character Emma Bovary, is also based off the true story of Eugene Delemare, who was a student of Flaubert's father and a physician in the French army. ... Flaubert's style is also described as indirect free-style in which he very carefully describes characters not directly as the author, but through the eyes of another character. ... The beauty of Flaubert's style as a critical realist is perhaps most evident in the manner in which he creates rhythm within the novel with the building up of Emma's...

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While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the ...

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While some readers interpreted the collection's final story, "Swimming Lessons," as a forerunner to future fiction about the immigrant experience, their expectations fell short when Mistry's first novel, Such a Long Journey, appeared in 1991. ... Gandhi's declaration of a state of internal emergency, the book turns first toward the Parsi community in an unidentified city by the sea that resembles Bombay, but its plot opens up to embrace other characters and to expand the settings. ... Instead, he has turned their lives into a metaphor that stands for the human experience: the ...

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The play opens with three female characters whose stories dominate the play throughout, each striving to break from their prescribed outcomes. ... Throughout the plot, these three women abandon their roles and express their sexuality beyond their society's expectations. ...

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Eco's Postscript is also a manifesto proclaiming the authority of serious historical fiction: the characters in a historical novel may not appear in encyclopedias, he notes, but everything they do could only occur in that time and place. Made-up events and characters tell us things "that history books have never told us so clearly," so as "to make history, what happened, more comprehensible"(p. 75). ... He further perplexes ordinary readers with the linguistic challenges of numerous snatches of classical and medieval Latin, French, and German, not to mention the peculiar polyglot speech o...

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