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This 6 page paper discusses the innocence of Emma Bovary and Evelina Anville in the books that bear their names. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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name. Evelina, however, seems to be a model of propriety; her slips and mistakes in society are innocent ones and she does not take lovers, though circumstances sometimes make her
conduct appear questionable. This paper uses two scenes from each novel to argue that both characters are innocents but in different ways: Evelina really is innocent and while Emma has
lovers, she remains innocent because she never really gives up the belief that life is (or should be) like her beloved fairy tales. The paper also considers why the innocence
found in these stories is ironic as well. Discussion Please note: the sources used for this paper are the full on-line texts. There are no page numbers in this format.
The first scene in Emma Bovary is the beginning of Chapter 6. Here the reader learns about her childhood, and the fact that she has an extraordinarily rich fantasy life,
based on the books she reads. Flaubert describes her as a person who "rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of
a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes." He also says that before her marriage, Emma thought she was in love, but "the happiness that should
have followed this love not having come" she thought she must have made a mistake (Flaubert) And so she set out to find out what the words "felicity, passion, rapture"
meant in life, because they had seemed so lovely when she read about them in books (Flaubert). Her father was eager to have her married, or perhaps he would not
have been so quick to accept Charles, who is something of a plodding dolt, as his son-in-law. But the fact remains that Rouault is a farmer, and even though Emma
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