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In five pages this paper examines how these authors develop the theme of the effects of reading on the imaginations of their protagonists in these novels with the importance of gender among the topics considered. Three sources are listed in the bibliography.
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bring the embodied imagination to these unsettling connections, these dreams? These other spaces we inhabit and these other identities who inhabit us?" (Felski 23) These are questions Gustave
Flaubert and Miguel de Cervantes attempt to answer in their respective novels Madame Bovary and Don Quixote. In each text, the authors thematize the effect of reading on the
imagination through their choice of protagonists, Emma Bovary and Don Quixote (Alonso Quixana). Gender is an important component in understanding how the imagination is affected by reading because men
and women approach the concept of reading in different ways (Felski 23). Largely because of their gender, Madame Bovary and Don Quixote place different expectations on what reading must
offer them and their imaginations respond in kind. Also, the ways in which their imaginations interpret what they read are also quite distinctive and gender-influenced. Paragraphs 1, 2: Madame
Bovarys Expectations Emma Bovary is middle class and that profoundly influences what she reads and dictates the expectations for what she reads. She wants the perfect man to
rescue her from her dreary existence. Dr. Charles Bovary would never be that knight in shining armor. He had enough trouble saving lives, and he was - in
her view - incapable of providing her with sexual satisfaction or any type of emotional salvation. Ironically, her husband is the one man Madame Bovary does not romanticize; she
sees him clearly and rejects him because what she sees does not live up to her expectations. However, L?on Dupuis must play a romantic part in Madame Bovarys imagination
to fulfill her erotic fantasies: "The L?on she saw in imagination became a totally different being from the L?on whom she knew--a synthetic figure compounded of things remembered, things read
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