Social Class Distinction In Madame Bovary: A Way Of Categorizing People
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Striving for higher social status has been the downfall of many, many
people just as it was the destruction of Emma Bovary. In Nineteenth
Century France, several class existed: peasant or working class, middle
class, upper-middle class, bourgeois, gentry and aristocratic. In the story,
Madame Bov ....
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.... Both Emma and Homais followed this practice
in their pursuits to really belong. “Madame Bovary” is about a sense of
self, a search for personal identity and reality versus illusion. The
symbolism throughout the story is clearly indicative of this fact (Barron’s
5).
To what social class did the characters belong, in reality, in appearance?
Did they move from one class to another during the story? In the following
pages I will respond to these questions. Charles Bovary moves between ....
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