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A 5 page paper which examines the imagery and symbolism of birds in Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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that her life should be some sort of romantic fantasy. Throughout Flauberts work one can find many symbolic images that help the reader understand this woman and her dreams. The
following paper examines the imagery of nature, as seen in the figures of birds in Flauberts novel. Birds in Madame Bovary Madame Bovary is Emma, and Emma is
a simple young woman raised in a convent, but yet also possessed of an insatiable desire to know romance as she has read about in novels. She is a woman
who wants "More love, more pleasure, more passion than real life can give her. Her name is Emma Bovary and shes the great nineteenth century heroine: reckless, dreamy, voluptuous, discontented,
and marked out for a most unromantic early death" (Wall). There is something simple, and incredibly fragile, about Emma and this is where the imagery of birds seems quite applicable
to her character. One of the first references to birds comes when Emma first awakens to the knowledge that she could marry a man, a doctor, who will later turn
out to be inadequate and shallow in all respects. The narrator states the following: "But the uneasiness of her new position, or perhaps the disturbance caused by the presence of
this man, had sufficed to make her believe that she at last felt that wondrous passion which, till then, like a great bird with rose-coloured wings, hung in the splendour
of the skies of poesy; and now she could not think that the calm in which she lived was the happiness she had dreamed" (Flaubert Part I Chapter Six).
In this the soul and passion of Emma symbolically begins to find root, like a bird that has been hovering too long and can perhaps now come to earth and
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