Cover of Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Flaubert| Gustave

Gustave Flaubert's revolutionary novel follows Emma Bovary, a doctor's wife in provincial Normandy who seeks escape from the banality of her marriage through romantic fantasies, adulterous affairs,…

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Topics

divine intervention 139 bourgeois domesticity 60 romantic idealization 51 marital disillusionment 45 adulterous relationships 41 social constraints on women 26 female frustration 17 critique of middle-class values 15 psychological realism 11 emma's ambition 10 social constraints 9 madame bovary 9 middle-class values 7 romantic encounter 7 moral transgression 7 domestic scene 5 social interaction 4 social class differences 4 emotional distress 4 town council 4 surgical operation 4 power of attorney 4 moral decay 4 description of yonville 4 church interior 4 romantic rendezvous 3 romantic idealization versus provincial reality 3 psychological realism in character portrayal 3 marital interaction 3 emotional manipulation 3

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bourgeois domesticity town of verrières church and state romantic encounter count of monte cristo unjust man divine intervention moral decay

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