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A 3 page paper which examines the validity of the criticism, “Flaubert is a wild Romantic compelling himself to be an exact Realist.” No additional sources are used.
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life. The Realist approach would appear to be the antithesis of the Romanticism that commenced at the end of the eighteenth century with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridges
poetic masterpiece, "Lyrical Ballads." Romanticism was an unabashed celebration of the imagination and human emotion in reaction to the Enlightenments preoccupation with reason. The Realist movement, which began
around the mid-nineteenth century, was a step away from the popular Romantic trends because the imagined beauty of the world was supplanted by the ordinary and sporadic ugliness of humanity.
Flauberts 1857 masterpiece, Madame Bovary, a story of woman becoming imprisoned and destroyed by her passions, is widely hailed as the first example of Realist fiction. However, there
are more than a fair number of critics that disagree, arguing instead that Madame Bovary is confirmation that Flaubert is instead a wild Romantic compelling himself to be an exact
Realist. Is this a valid criticism? The bucolic reality of a boring rather than enticing French countryside reveals itself early in the novel. A nondescript village doctor, Charles
Bovary marries Emma, the daughter of one of his patients. While Emma has been seduced by the Romantic novels that were her only companion during her convent days, she
quickly discovers her own life does not imitate art. She learns that it is a mans world, where women are expected to be subservient and not entitled to their
own passions or sensuous natures. When she becomes pregnant, Emma hopes she will give birth to a son that will enjoy the freedom she will never experience because of
her gender, but gives birth instead to Berthe, who is as average as her father. Her increasing boredom is conveyed through such innocuous prose as: "One day, Emma was
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