The novels‚ Charlotte Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary both vary on the conventions of popular romantic fiction. Wuthering Heights does this in several ways. For example‚ in the ever standing issue of social standing in novels of Bronte’s era. Catherine is of a much higher social standing than Heathcliff‚ whose social standing was first elevated by his adoption by Catherine father‚ Mr Earnshaw‚ and then degraded after the death of Mr Earnshaw by Hindley. This aspect
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The Stranger Ch. 1&2 1. Meursault visited his mother so infrequently because it was too out of the way and because it killed an entire day. 2. It is odd that Madame Meursault desired a religious burial because during her life‚ she was not religious at all. 3. Meursault doesn’t want to see inside the casket because he doesn’t want to see his mother dead. He would respond this way because he wants his last memories of his mother to be of her alive. I think that it is perfectly normal because
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In the article “The Narrator and the Bourgeois Community in ‘Madame Bovary’‚” written by Leo Bersai‚ he discusses how “Flaubert maintains a dual position” in the novel Madame Bovary. Bersai states that Flaubert make Emma’s dreams seem important and gives it “dignity” but at the same time ridicules her fantasies. Bersani also writes that Flaubert detaches himself entirely from the community that he writes about. Although there are parts of the
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On the Other Side: Letters to My Children from Germany 1940-46 was written by Mathilde Wolff-Monckeberg during the Hamburg air raids of WWII. Wolff-Monckeberg says in her first letter “This war would be conducted with the most horrible weapons and resources‚ its whole justification based on a daily incitement of lies‚ not an honest war‚ but an illegal and mean exploitation‚ as far as we were concerned.”1 The first letter boldly states that Wolff-Monckeberg views Germany’s participation in the war
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hope for a better life or the future. This is perhaps the main reason why we as readers feel more sympathy towards Veronica as opposed to Mathilde in The Necklace; her almost inhuman ability to simply accept everything that is thrown at her. Mathilde is directly opposite to Veronica in the way that she behaves: Veronica accepts her unlucky situations and Mathilde complains and makes her life worse. Initially‚ the writer introduces Veronica to the reader through her family and her background. We are
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social status and beauty. Mathilde/ Madame Loisel is a lower middle class woman‚ who has a strong desire to be in the upper class. Her husband‚ Monsieur Loisel‚ works as a clerk and is happy with his place in society. In Guy de Maupassant’s‚ “The Necklace‚” the theme of appearance vs. reality is revealed through the complexities of human nature and society. The author discloses that during the 19th century the social status was important. In this story Madame Loisel desires to be wealthy.
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knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him. He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man. Follow him. Mathilde Loisel is “pretty and charming” but feels she has been born into a family of unfavorable economic status. She was married off to a lowly clerk in the Ministry of Education‚ who can afford to provide her only with a modest though not uncomfortable lifestyle. Mathilde feels the burden of her poverty intensely. She regrets her lot in life and spends endless hours imagining a more
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Life The Necklace is a short story by Guy de Maupassant. It begins with a explanation of Madame Mathilde Loisel. Though she is young and pretty‚ she and her husband are not well off financially. Her husband is only a clerk in the ministry of education. Mathilde is a very worldly person who is never content with anything in her life. Her husband is not a rich man‚ but he brings home enough to get by. Mathilde has always dreamed of the rich life‚ with servants and a large house‚ but her lifestyle
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when Mr. Loisel receives an invitation to a swanky upper-class dinner party. The premise of "The Necklace" centers around the main character‚ Mathilde Loisel‚ borrowing a necklace from her wealthy friend Madame Jeanne Forrestier‚ losing the necklace‚ replacing it and paying off the loans for ten years. This story contains rich characterization‚ realistic setting and irony. There are three main characters in "The Necklace‚" Mr. Loisel‚ Mathilde Loisel and Jeanne Forrestier. Mr. Loisel is the personification
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a more simplistic nature relative to novels. Guy de Maupassant’s‚ “The Necklace” is no exception. Starting with the exposition‚ the story has only three main characters‚ Madame and Monsieur Loisel––both very simple‚ “economical” characters that are among the lower-rank of society’s hierarchal ladder‚ and Madame Forestier‚ Mathilde Loisel’s affluent friend. A combination of 19th century language and lifestyle‚ as well as the life span of the author‚ dually suggest that the story’s setting takes place
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