CONTROVERSIAL STORIES

Controversial Stories

Controversial Stories

Thesis Statement

Profanity and slang used in the songs may appear to be of no consequence. In reality, the effect of these words are far ranging and profound.

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Introduction

Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary was ostracised on sexy grounds. In the trial, Imperial Advocate Ernest Pinard said, "No gauze for him, no veils--he devotes us nature in all her nudity and crudity". Madame Bovary is a woman full of aspirations without any hope of finding a truth that will fulfill her hopes. She marries a provincial doctor, tries to find love in all the wrong locations, and finally brings about her own ruination. In the end, she get aways in the only way she understands how. This innovative is an investigation of the life of a woman who dreams too large. Here adultery and other actions have been controversial (Berk, 2009).

Short Story

Gustave Flaubert's genius lay in his infinite capacity for taking pains, and Madame Bovary — so true in its characterizations, so vivid in its setting, so convincing in its plot — is plentiful testimony to the realism of his work. This innovative was one of the first of its type to come out of France, and its truth alarmed contemporary book readers. Condemned on one hand for picturing the life of a romantic adulterer, Flaubert was acclaimed on the other hand for the honesty and skill with which he handled his subject. Flaubert does not permit Emma Bovary to escape the tragedy she brings on herself. Emma finds diversion from the monotony of her life, but she finds it at the decrease of her own self-respect. The reality of Emma's struggle is universal and challenging. (Berk, 2009)

Flaubert himself examined his publication as “all cunning and stylistic con”. His intention was to write “a publication about not anything, a publication with no exterior attachment, a publication that would have almost no subject.” Flaubert's goals, although, were not as purely aesthetic as they might primarily seem, for he did not signify to eschew implication entirely. Rather, he meant that any subject matter, no issue how trivial, could be raised to art by language and pattern. Like Stendhal and Honore de Balzac, Flaubert accepted that quotidian matters could be treated seriously, but he proceeds further than his predecessors in refusing to supply narrative guidance and interpretation. (Roberts, 2006)

Literary critic Erich Auerbach discerned that Flaubert seems easily to pick scenes that are significant and endow them with a language that allows them to be interpreted. As a outcome, many commentators have seen Flaubert as the first up to date novelist, even a precursor of the antinovelist, because of his unwillingness to deal with subject matter in the traditional, narrative manner. (Berk, 2009)

Most of the novel is glimpsed from Emma's perspective, but there is such a deft playing off of Emma's perceptions contrary to the narrator's control that the reader is adept to analyze her perceptions in a broader context other than easily accept them as ...