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A 4 page essay that discusses similarities between Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary with his protagonist of Emma Bovary and Kate Chopin's The Awakening with Edna Ponteiller. The writer argues that the reader, with these novels, encounters two female protagonists who each have difficulty reconciling their outward behavior to their inward reality. Western culture at the time of these novels dictated a very restrictive role for women in society, a role that concentrated firmly on domesticity. Both Emma and Edna have an inner romantic concept of what marriage and love are like, which contrasts sharply with the reality of their lives. In both novels, this factor creates tension that provides the thematic impetus for the narrative that unfolds, illuminating each author's perception of what it meant to be a woman in patriarchal nineteenth century society. No additional sources cited.
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female protagonists who each have difficulty reconciling their outward behavior to their inward reality. Western culture at the time of these novels dictated a very restrictive role for women in
society, a role that concentrated firmly on domesticity. Both Emma and Edna have an inner romantic concept of what marriage and love are like, which contrasts sharply with the reality
of their lives. In both novels, this factor creates tension that provides the thematic impetus for the narrative that unfolds, illuminating each authors perception of what it meant to be
a woman in patriarchal nineteenth century society. Emma read romantic novels throughout her girlhood, which was spent in a French convent. Her romanticism prevents her from seeing the character
of Charles Bovary realistically. In fact, it can be argued that Emma did not ever perceive Charles as a person in his own right. Rather she perceived him first
through a romanticized veil and then through a similar prism formed by her failed expectations. For instance, Emma finds Charles dinner conversation to be lacking, as he fails to live
up to the higher class heroes pictured in romantic novels. Emma found his conversation to be as "commonplace as street pavement" (Flaubert 29). Furthermore, Charles does not swim, fence, shoot
and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappointment at this failing indicates her expectations
that a men should know "everything" and "excel in manifold activities" (Flaubert 29). Flaubert does not fault Emma for her failings, as much as he does French bourgeoisie society
and its emphasis on materialism. In order to live up to her romantic dreams, Emma takes an aristocratic lover, Rodolphe, mistaking his sophistication for true emotion and character. She imagines
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