Essays on Gustave Flaubert

Introduction

Realism is a unique philosophical belief that suggests that a person’s reality (which can be characterized by his perception of life, including the things a person has and the experiences he has encountered), or a certain aspect of such reality is dependent on subjective factors and is ontologically independent from standard conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, perceptions, and other established system . Realism is generally the view that entities, which in this are humans, have an objective reality, a reality that is completely and ontologically independent of those entities’ conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, and etc. Thus, entities including abstract concepts and universals as ...

Madam Bovary is a novel written by Gustave Flaubert in 1856. It takes us through the journey and the life of an extremely complex character Emma Bovary, who was a doctor’s wife. Emma had adulterous relationships and lived ahead of her means in order to get away from the ordinariness and emptiness of her life. Madam Bovary was later turned into a romance and drama film in 1949. It was written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Vincente Minnelli. In the film, the figure of Emma Bovary as a character in the novel causes cheers of approval and howls of outrage as ...

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Felicite adores her pet parrot Loulou very much while it is alive, and gets it stuffed after it dies. Felicite and Loulou seem to have a multifaceted relationship, and Gustave Flaubert uses the stuffed parrot as a means of satirizing religious though by depicting it as an embodiment of the Holy Ghost. Through Loulou, Flaubert seems to be mocking all parrotry, and he makes the parrot mindlessly repeat all sorts of clichés. In fact, the parrot’s own name comprises the repetition of the word “Lou.” There is a scene in the book when visitors to at the house are admiring ...

Psychoanalysis refers to Sigmund Freud’s work centring on the unconscious self. That is, our hidden, repressed desires and aggressions which are held in a part of the brain which cannot consciously be accessed. Flaubert’s A Simple Heart tells the tale of Félicité, a house maid who lives her life without worry, upset and with unguarded love. Psychoanalysing a text enables the reader to develop a deeper comprehension of its workings. An understanding of the author’s life and person can often lend itself to the cognitive process behind the plot or the characters’ personalities. Freud’s psychoanalysis work was best ...