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    Through Literature: Voltaire and Flaubert I believe that I will find out that the women of the 18th and 19th century literary works by these two authors would differ from real women of that time. Basing that assumption off of characters like Emma Bovary, Cunègonde, and the OId Woman from Candide, I think I will find that these characters were ahead of their time. Especially considering that the real women of the 18th and 19th century would have undoubtedly been oppressed in daily life aspects like

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    The novel Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert depicts the struggles and troubles of Emma Bovary, a well off wife of a country doctor. Firstly she is educated in a convent learning to read, write and some arts but not much else. She has big expectations of love and marriage from the novels she’s read. She

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    The New Woman The new woman was a feminist movement in the late nineteenth century. This movement was a feminist movement that started to change gender roles.It had a profound influence on the art and litarre of the time.Victoria Cross is just one of the many female artists to come out of this movement.She had an extensive list of work she had done. This movement was revolutionary in so many ways. The name “New Woman” was coined in the late nineteenth century. It was a feminist ideal fighting

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    Chapter 22 Short Answer Questions 1a. Louis Napoleon and Otto von Bismarck share a similarity when it comes to Realpolitik: Both used nationalism to further their goals. For example, Napoleon succeeded in getting people to support him by claiming that he would make France prosperous and safe and instituted many policies that proved popular with the common people. This allowed him to retain and gain more power. Otto von Bismarck claimed that the questions Prussia faced will be decided by “iron and

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    Jaehun Lee 10/12/17 First Writing Assignment Realist artists, writers, and playwrights strived to portray objective reality in opposition to what they saw as excessive dependence on the subjective imagination in Romantic Art. They did this to portray the plight of the lower and middle class, and provided influential social commentary. For example, Daumier’s First Class Carriage and Third Class Carriage showed the stark contrast between the lives of the rich and the poor. However, purely realist

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    The Hunger Games consist of three series in which it revolves around two main characters, Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. In the first book, the audience is introduced to Katniss being the provider of her family and the environment that she lives in known as district 12. The story begins with showing the reader about Katniss’ hunting skills. The remaining characters consist of a boy and a girl from the age of 13-18 in which they will be chosen to be a part of this game in which they have to kill

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    Antiheroes: neither villains nor supermen but the tragic heroes of daily life. Discussing the deptiction of the ‘male American antihero’ within the framework of this thesis in the cases of Lester Burnham, Frank Wheeler, and Brandon Sullivan refers to white men from (upper) middle class leading a drab, emotionally unfulfilling life in the US – in New York City and suburbs in Connecticut, to be exact. First of all, one needs to clarify what exactly makes and antihero and what distinguishes him from

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    of chivalry, as well as in today’s films about social criticism of Western consumer culture such as Fight Club (1999), or modern TV series such as Breaking Bad. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms further lists Flaubert’s Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary (1857), Joyce’s Leopold Bloom in Ulysses (1922), and Arthur Miller’s Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman as “outstanding examples of this antiheroic ordinariness and inadequacy” and describes the antihero as “ineffectual failure who succumbs

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    discuss the definition of normal and how it has changed in time; one thing that remains the same is how the meaning has revolutionized our present society. Statisticians and eugenicists Adolphe Quetelet, Sir Francis Galton, Charles Darwin, and Madame Bovary have provided statistical data to support what the meaning stands for and how it came into existence whether in agreement or apprehension on the matter. People with disabilities have been in the mix of dealing with the controversial laws and theories

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    This shows that one purpose of life is love. Is love ever present in Madame Bovary? Does Emma Bovary ever experience true love throughout the novel? Emma has her husband Charles, daughter Berthe, and two lovers, Leon and Rodolphe, but does she ever feel actual love for any of them? Ever since she lived in a convent as a young girl, Emma has dreamed of love and marriage. She had every chance to but instead blew it. Charles Bovary met Emma because she was the daughter of a patient of his. Charles

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