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Works of Gustave Flaubert: Analyses Of Characters

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Flaubert, Gustave

Flaubert, Gustave
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Analyses Of Characters

Emma Bovary:

A beautiful young woman whose frustrated search of ecstatic love, glory
and refinement in a dull provincial environment provides the plot of the
novel. She is the type Flaubert classified as the "false" romantic: emotional
but not warm-hearted; sentimental rather than artistic; sensual rather than
spiritual. She places all importance on appearances rather than inner values.
To some extent her illusions and affectations, as well as her more serious
faults, deceit and selfishness, are due to external influences such as ...

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