For it deals not in the least, as to unapproachability, with things exalted or refined; it only confers on its sufficiently vulgar elements of exhibition a final unsurpassable form " (Norton Critical Edition, 414). ... Madame Bovary reveals a picture of a woman who is miserable in the boredom of her mundane everyday life, and turns to adultery. ...

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