Gustave Flaubert Research Paper

Gustave Flaubert was born on the twelfth of December 1821. He became a Fresh novelist and he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. Flaubert’s father was a senior surgeon at a large hospital in Rouen and his mother was the daughter of a doctor. He started writing at a very young age, probably somewhere around eight years old, and his parent’s influence in his life can be seen throughout his works, especially in Madame Bovary. During the 1830s, Flaubert attended the Collége Royal de Rouen. When he was fourteen began focusing more on his own writings. He was inspired by his unconsummated love affair with a much older married woman, Elisa Schlésinger.

Auguste Comte was born in January 19 of the year 1798 in Montpellier France, more specifically Comte was born during the French Revolution which greatly influenced him on his thinking. Comtes parents were strictly devoted catholics which later came into conflict because of his strong beliefs in building “a new kind of France”. In addition, Comte wanted to build a new kind of France based on his strong belief of science and republicanism. Life in school Comte was very intelligent, he excelled in teachings of mathematics and journalism while also studying economics, history, and philosophy. Later in life, Comte moved out to Paris and studied at L'Ecole Polytechnique in 1814 as a young man (Biography.com, 2017). There he met “Henri de Saint Simon, a French social reformer and one of the founders of socialism” (Britannica.com, 2017). Both Comte and Saint Simon were utopian society thinkers on how they perceived their definition of society, Comte published political articles that were influenced by his

Henri Matisse was an extravagant artist they lived from 1869 till 1954. Throughout his life he pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable in art and helping head the fauvism art movement of the time. His life through art progressed through several stages, firstly his early influences in his childhood home and surroundings, secondly his early days of art at the academies of Paris and his first years on his own and thirdly his later life when he delved into the more progressive art movements of the times.

In Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862. By the time he was nine, Debussy became skilled at playing the piano. Debussy was encouraged to enter the Paris Conservatory in 1873. At this conservatory, he studied the piano and its structure. In 1884, with his cantata The Prodigal Child, Debussy won the Grand Prix de Rome. Debussy’s childhood was filled with many troubling situations. It was quite a bumpy ride. He was faced with problems, both substantial and emotional. He lived with his parents in the suburbs of Paris. They struggled living in poverty. Unpredictably, Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, a Russian millionaire, took Debussy under her patronage. Throughout Europe, she and Debussy traveled to grand residences,

Cezanne’s doubt is an biography based off of this French painters strengths and weaknesses. This also explains the type of artist cezanne was. In the beginning, it expresses his love for painting and How he painted the day his mother die. Which shows how much effort he put in his art. cezanne was also visually visually impaired. He wondered whether that would affect his paintings, in the beginning of his career. Furthermore, it explains how much anxiety cezanne had. He even wrote his will at 42. On the other hand, the rest of the bioganry was about him and his relationship his relationship with art and how he managed and proceeded with his career. Cezanne was an impressionist painter. I found it interesting that he was such a vibrant painter,

Nantes was a very busy maritime port city.[3].he was raised in a middle class family and also had 3 sisters and 1 brother.while in boarding school. Jules verne wrote many plays and books.[1].he also wrote lyrics for operas. When he was twelve he was a cabin boy on a ship[2]

The Impressionist revolution was born from the technological advancements during the Industrial Revolution, the political instability in France from the Revolution of 1848, and the domineering rule of the French Academy of Fine Arts. Together, through the vision of a group of extremely talented French artists, brought a variety of influences, beliefs, and styles together to form Impressionism (1977). After the monarchy in France was overthrown, conservatives seized the reins of government creating widespread distrust among the aristocracy, the poor, and the newly prosperous bourgeoisie or middle class. As the bourgeoisie grew in numbers and influence, the taste for art expanded. In addition to the expansion of art production occurring, demands for the traditional artists and works that featured idealized images with symmetry, hard outlines, and smooth paint surfaces that characterized academic paintings were the only accepted creations (2000). The French Academy of Fine Arts was about to embark on the movement that steered the art world away from the art that taught a moral lesson with historic, mythological, and Biblical themes they demanded.

Gustave Eiffel was one of the most renowned architects and engineers of his time. He is mostly known for his contribution to the French railway network and the famous Eiffel Tower. Eiffel was born on December 15 in the year of 1832 in Dijon, France. Eiffel’s career began to take off when he graduated from the College of Arts and Manufacturing in Paris, France in 1855. Upon graduating at the top of his class, Eiffel began to show interest in metal construction. He ended up becoming very skilled in this specialty that he was later given the nickname of “Magician of Iron”.

The middle class in France during the early 1800s, otherwise known as the Bourgeoisie, was defined by capitalistic views and business-minded outlooks. However, many people of this era, including author Gustave Flaubert, were highly critical of this middle class. In Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary, the character Homais represents the ideas and spirit of the Bourgeoisie. Because of his dissatisfaction with the middle class, the author gives Homais several negative character traits, such as selfishness, cowardice, and hypocrisy. Flaubert’s criticism of the egotistical and corrupt nature of Homais is evident during the procedure on Hippolyte and the argument between Homais and the priest; Homais’ triumph at the end of the novel suggests that Flaubert is also critical of the outcome of the pharmacist’s actions, not just the actions themselves.

Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, is the story of Emma, a naïve girl who dreams of having a life, bigger than the one she can ever achieve. Flaubert throughout the story depicts average members of society with all their faults. Greed, lust, deceit, and incompetence are the stock in trade of all his characters. The story has no heroes, only losers and fools who waste their unfulfilled lives. Emma schooled in a convent is desperate to feel the excitement of real love as she imagines it to be. Emma is married to Charles Bovary, the first man she ever really knows. Charles is the classic underachiever whose shortcomings plague Emma throughout their marriage. Charles will never have the position, money, success, or class status she so desperately desires. Marriage, a child, and respectability cannot assuage her disappointment in herself and her life. She finds solace and excitement in things she cannot afford and men she cannot resist. Emma has no one to blame but herself for all her failings. Her ego and sense of entitlement overrides her common sense and allows her to borrow money that she will never be able to repay. Like an addict without self-control, she continues borrow money and have affairs that never really satisfy her. She hates herself for her deceptions and constantly fears exposure. Her life becomes a downward spiral of lies and shame that eventually ends in the coward’s solution of suicide.

Madame Bovary is Gustave Flaubert’s first novel and is considered his masterpiece. It has been studied from various angles by the critics. Some study it as a realistic novel of the nineteenth century rooted in its social milieu. There are other critics who have studied it as a satire of romantic sensibility. It is simply assumed that Emma Bovary, the protagonist, embodied naive dreams and empty cliché that author wishes to ridicule, as excesses and mannerisms of romanticism. She is seen as a romantic idealist trapped in a mundane mercantile world. Innumerable theorists have discovered and analysed extensively a variety of questions raised by its style, themes, and aesthetic innovations. In this research paper an attempt has

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16 of the year 1854, at 21 Westland Row in Dublin. His father was William Wilde and his mother Jane Francesca Elgee. Wildes’s parents were very successful, his father was one of the best oculist surgeon of his time and also founded a hospital that treated eyes and ears diseased that rapidly gave him fame and success. Wilde’s mother Francesca was considered a child prodigy that spoke French and Italian fluently and from a young age of twenty she had translated a novel from German called “Sidonia the Sorceress” but she was truly known to write poems and patriotic articles under pseudonyms. (Donald 14) Wilde during his whole life was very proud of his parent’s achievements and knowledge implemented on him, since his parents had such successful career by their own many people thought that they were the catalyst so Oscar Wilde becomes one of the most famous and infamous writers in the world (Powell and Raby 7).

Victor-Marie Hugo, is possibly the most renowned French author in history. Born on February 26, 1802 in Besancon, France, Hugo was the youngest of three sons of Count Leopold Sigisbert and Sophie Hugo. Hugo proved himself as a capable writer at a young age gaining Recognition from the French Academy for a poem he wrote when he was only fifteen. At the age of twenty, he published his first book of poetry titled Miscellaneous Odes and Verses and earned himself a royal pension which he used to marry his childhood sweetheart Adele Foucher. Hugo then began to expand his writing by publishing books such as Hans of Iceland, and The Slave-King (bug Jargal). These novel’s, however seem to be practice runs for his most memorable and impactful works of literature- The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables.

In Madame Bovary, Flaubert manipulates the settings in order to illustrate the progression of Emma’s deteriorating state of mind. Each location within Emma’s world holds a distinct reality and expectation she must live according to, due to the strong influence it has on her state of mind. Within each city Emma undergoes specific types of emotions and attachments that essentially become the drive to her great depression. Tostes, Yonville, Rouen, and Paris bind together for a single purpose in order to display the overall theme of dissatisfaction and repression, which ultimately become the reason for Emma’s ironic death.

Charles Bovary is well described. Although mediocre in all aspects, he represents the working class of the society; men do not live easy lives. They are struck by reality and most of the time, their efforts are not rewarded. A character like Rodolphe represents the deceivers. He is really a mockery to the typical romantic antagonist. The fact that he is an impostor and a liar was probably Flaubert’s way to show a contrast between realism and romanticism. Every character has so much to tell about society at the time, and we can expect it to be