the bond established by the man and the woman is an ongoing unending commitment to each another. In Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary,” Toni Morrison’s “Sula” and Kate Chopin’s two short stories “The Storm” and “The Story of an Hour” we see disloyalty, complex love, misery, unfulfillment and importantly, infidelity supposed matrimony. In the story “Madame Bovary,” Emma’s marriage is dull and uninteresting, her position as a wife and mother fails to make her happy or pleased. She has
they had to seek marriage to. The only jobs that women were allowed to hold was that of motherhood, they were not allowed to speak unless spoken to and certainly were not expected to have personal opinion. It was not until the start of the Women's Liberation Movement in the late 1960's and early 1970's that the whole outlook on women changed. If it wasn't for women such as: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Tubman women would be living in a world revolving only around men. In
married and bore little resemblance to the characters in her stories (150-164). Some of Chopin's short stories were rejected for publication on moral grounds, for editors perceived in them an unseemly interest in female self-assertion and sexual liberation. Per Seyersted, Chopin's biographer, writes in his introduction to The Complete Works of Kate Chopin, Volume 1, that the reason why editors turned down a number of her stories was very likely that her women became more passionate and emancipated
one expects to meet in the street the hero of some scrupulously realistic contemporary novel. Realism affects the organization of the 22 PHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO FILM contents, not narration as a status. On one level of perception, Emma Bovary is no less imaginary than Cinderella 's fairy godmother. We must, however, go one step further, for, along with realistic stories (which nobody believes have really occurred), there are also real stories: accounts of historical occurrences (the assassination