How does Flaubert use the Agricultural fair at Rouen to further his satire of 19th century French society?
WORLD LITERATURE 2 ESSAY: TYPE 2C Candidate number: D-0612-011 Name: Matthew Jackson Text: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert Title: "How does Flaubert use the Agricultural fair at Rouen to further his satire of 19th century French society?" Word count: 427 words. HOW DOES FLAUBERT USE THE AGRICULTURAL FAIR AT ROUEN TO FURTHER HIS SATIRE OF 19TH CENTURY FRENCH SOCIETY? Gustave Flaubert wrote his novel Madame Bovary in the mid-nineteenth century as a satirical comment on the upper middle class, those who were just rich enough to pretend to be rich. Flaubert loathed them and wrote his novel to make them appear as the fools that he thought them to be. His loathing for the upper middle class of 1850's France stemmed from the ideals which they held. Flaubert saw his fellows as a generation lost to the meritless and frivolous dreams of the French Romantic movement.1 French Romanticism was a movement through all the creative arts towards idealising the world which artists constructed. Although equally present in music and visual art, Flaubert focused both his hatred and his satire on the literature of the time, this reactionary nature earned him the title of a "naturalist". This was however something that Flaubert hated; the Naturalistic movement was one that focused on specifics and on realism in a work, whereas Flaubert sought to make his story one that was
The Bewitching of Anne Gunter
Sean Kennedy Dr. Weoll Early Modern Europe The Bewitching of Anne Gunter The Bewitching of Anne Gunter details the life of a young girl who claimed to be possessed by witches. She was not in fact possessed, and according to her at her trial, her father forced her to act as she was. Her father Brian Gunter had a long history of problems with one of the women who was accused, Elizabeth Gregory. The other women Agnes Pepwell was chosen because she was rumored to be a witch, and it would add credibility to the accusation. The problem between Brian Gunter and Elizabeth Gregory began at a football match in the town of North Moreton. It was a form of what is now called soccer, but was much rougher. It was many times viewed as just an excuse for two villages to get in a huge brawl. People were known to die from injuries related to this extreme form of physical activity. It was very hard to reconstruct what happened on the day of the football match in North Moreton. Brian Gunter was a spectator and two of Elizabeth Gregory's sons were playing in the game. A fight broke out between two men, one of them a Gregory. Gunter got in the middle of it and tried to break it up, at this point Richard Gregory and his brother John turned on Gunter. In the middle of the melee Gunter pulled out his dagger and killed both brothers. The Gregory's tried to get Gunter tried for murder, but it never
An analytical essay on the social context of "A sense & sensibility" by Jane Austin.
An analytical essay on the social context of "A sense & sensibility" by Jane Austin Sense & sensibility, written by Jane Austin was written in 1811, when society was quite different. Chivalry and Honour were much more important then today, because these equalled respectability. To get anywhere in the eighteen hundred's aristocratic society, you needed to be respected. The 19th century was also heavily based around decorum, to have a seemingly modest behaviour. In this coursework, I will be looking into how the characters comply with the standards of the age. I will also be looking at the relevance of the title to the text, and how the English language is used to purvey what the author is trying to tell us. The Novel starts off with a narrative on the family of dashwood, telling the reader of their estate and where it is situated. The owner of the estate, Mr John Dashwood, When married to his late wife, had one son, Mr John Dashwood. When His first wife died he married a second wife, who had 3 daughters from a previous marriage. They all lived in the Sussex estate quite happily until Mr Dashwood finally caught a disease and was about to die. Although he considered his three daughters to be closer to him then his son, who was now married and lived in London, he was obliged to leave the estate and finances to his son, as that was stated in the will. "To him, the succession to
How does Michael Frayn Establish a Sense of Uncertainty in the Early Stages of Spies?
How does Michael Frayn Establish a Sense of Uncertainty in the Early Stages of Spies? Like in any book, Frayn starts to set the scene in the opening stages of the book, and in this particular case, to do so he uses a sense of uncertainty. This uncertainty appears in many phases of the early stages. There is uncertainty in the time, is it past or present, there is uncertainty about memories, and there is definitely uncertainty about the people and their secrets. The book begins, and you can sense that uncertainty from the very beginning 'and there it is again: the same almost embarrassingly familiar breath of sweetness' Well as the reader we do not know what this scent is, and neither does the narrator, 'It comes from one of the gardens. Which one? I can never trace it. And what is it?' Immediately, as the reader you are drawn into this, the curiosity of what the smell it, why is it so familiar to him? This idea of the scent is then carried on in much more detail. It is described as 'something quite harsh and coarse. It reeks. It has a kind of sexual urgency to it. And it unsettles me' Again, even as the reader you are troubled by these images, these quite disturbing words make you wonder why does Frayn use them just to describe what was 'a familiar breath of sweetness' so, even in the first couple of paragraphs you are uncertain as to what is happening, what is about to
'Tea in the wendy house' is concerned With a sense of disappointment. Choose one other story which involves Disappointment and compare the two stories. I shall be comparing the story 'Tea in the wendy house' to another story called 'snowdrops'.
'Tea in the wendy house' is concerned With a sense of disappointment. Choose one other story which involves Disappointment and compare the two stories. I shall be comparing the story 'Tea in the wendy house' to another story called 'snowdrops'. Both these stories carry with them a theme of disappointment. In the story 'Tea in the wendy house', disappointment is expressed in Lynn's desires to break free from the web that entangles her. She was a woman with ambitions and dreams, "Is that all? A lovely mum? I used to have ambitions", now that she will have to bring up a child and be a normal typical housewife all of her ambitions have been shattered. She feels caught up in early marriage and her pregnancy by Graham. Her mother is also very controlling over her, she seems to always want the best for her daughter but never really seems to actually take the time to realise what Lynn really wants, "I said nothing, but my mother didn't seem to notice", this proves my point. Certain happenings in the story, feelings, and thought's are expressed in a rather false way also. In the story 'Snowdrops', there is a lot of disappointment shown and felt. Miss Webster, who is a teacher at a primary school, loses her boyfriend as he crashed on a motorbike. But this grievement and misery is also experienced a less extreme way in a young boys eyes. The young boy who's teacher is
'My Grandmother' by Elizabeth Jennings (born 1926)
'My Grandmother' Elizabeth Jennings (born 1926) In many of Elizabeth Jennings poems she reflects the difficult personal experiences of her life. Many of her poems deal with themes of family, friendship, suffering, loneliness and religious experiences, without them being too sentimental. In this poem Elizabeth Jennings has set it out in four stanzas. Where each stanza tells a part to her story. Elizabeth Jennings is talking about her own experiences with her grandmother. The poem is a memory of her childhood and she is looking back at it. People have lots of different opinions about what a Grandmother is supposed to be like. Some people think that they should be caring to others, loving to their families, always going to play bingo, constantly knitting something for their grandchildren and never unkind to others. Even thougfh all Grandmothers are not like that we class as to be all the same and we always classify them as being old and frail. Some Grandmothers are fit and healthy always doing something active. We should not classify all Grandmothers to be old either because some of them might be younger than you think. On the other hand when we do say that all Grandmothers are kind and caring some may not be. We should not judge them. In some houses the family put up photographs of their Grandmothers to keep as a memory if they live far away or are dead. Others might have
Women suffer as a result of being misjudged by men in both my core text, Pride and Prejudice and secondary text, The Yellow Wallpaper.
“Women suffer as a result of being misjudged by men.” Explore this with reference to your second text. In your response, you should focus on Pride and Prejudice to establish your argument and you should refer to the second to support and develop your line of argument. Women suffer as a result of being misjudged by men in both my core text, Pride and Prejudice and secondary text, The Yellow Wallpaper. In Pride and Prejudice, an example of a woman who suffers as a result of being misjudged by her husband is Mrs Bennet. Mrs Bennet suffers as a result of being mocked by Mr Bennet. “How so? how can it affect them?” This reply from Mr Bennet to his wife Mrs Bennet is ironic. Austen has Mr Bennet using irony to draw attention to the stupidity of Mrs Bennet. We can tell that Mr Bennet is being ironic from his excessively polite answer to Mrs Bennet’s question. This connotes sarcasm which Mr Bennet uses to mock Mrs Bennet. Mr Bennet also teases Mrs Bennet a little later on in the novel where Mrs Bennet says: “I am sick of Mr Bingley,” Mr Bingley replies: “I am sorry to hear that; but why did not you tell me so before? If I had known as much this morning I certainly would not have called on him. It is very unlucky; but as I have actually paid the visit, we cannot escape the acquaintance now.” Again, Mr Bingley has used an opportunity to make fun of Mrs Bennet. These
The Half Brothers
THE HALF BROTHERS The Half Brothers is a short story written by Elizabeth Gaskell, which was first published in November 1958. The story is a very typical example of her strong moral sense and interest in the difficulties faced by ordinary people and how they have to find the strength to live their daily life. It is my intention, in the following essay to explore how Elisabeth Gaskell has represented the suffering of ordinary people during the Victorian period. The title clearly explains what the story is concerned with. One of the first things we find out is that the narrator's mother had not had a very pleasant life, or at least not a happy start of her life. She was twice married and wasn't happy with her first husband. Right at the start of the story, Elizabeth Gaskell expresses her concern for poverty and suffering. The first two events in the story are the death of her first husband and the death of her little baby. The baby girl's death was the only thing the mother had and her death had such a great impact of sorrow and pain that she couldn't even cry or drop a tear but felt as if her heart had been torn apart. Her life just seemed to have stopped for a while. Death is never a good thing in any case and is always painful, especially when someone close to your heart dies. You feel as if a part of you has been taken away from you and that's exactly what happened to
Short story
A breath, a short gasping breath broke the unearthly silence. She awoke, startled, petrified of what was going to happen to her next. Had he gone? She was not to know. The impenetrable darkness mocked her unaccustomed eyes, making her feel more vulnerable then before, if that was possible. Her jaw was broken, allowing the blood to trickle ever-so steadily into her mouth, mingling with her saliva. Her clothes looked like they had been attacked by wild dogs, she found a repulsive comedy in that thought. Her body had been bruised and broken, excruciating welts covered her body like boils. It had happened all so fast, another potential customer had driven up to her as usual, not surprisingly accompanied with the stench of alcohol plaguing his decrepit car. He had been the same as all her customers, subdued and clothed in dark garments that obscured his face and body. He invited her to join him for the night and she, with all politeness, had accepted, that was her 'job' at least. They had then driven to a neon-lighted, hovel of a motel, how very original. From then on the events of the night became a blur until that deed had taken place, which had stripped Emma of her womanhood and innocent and which left her laying in that gutter, her soul fractured, her body and mind scarred deeper than any sword would have been able to inflict. In that state of semi-consciousness, Emma's mind
My Nightmare
My Nightmare It was Monday morning, my first day of babysitting. I wanted some extra money and because it was the school holidays, I decided that babysitting for my mum's friend (Elizabeth) was a good idea. I had to look after baby John who was six months old between the hours of 9 and 4, Monday-Saturday, which I didn't mind doing because I loved kids. Elizabeth, had moved away with her husband Steve, a few years ago because of his job, but still they kept in contact. A few weeks ago she moved back to live in our area because she had left her husband, he was beating her. He had got so stressed out with his job, and things did not work out as he had planned them too so he took all his problems out on his wife. She came back to the same house she had lived in before moving away and left him because she was afraid that he would start taking his problems out on John, and she was not going to stand for that. My mum helped Elizabeth to get back her on feet and she was starting a new job so I offered to do some babysitting during the day for her. When Steve lived with Elizabeth I remembered him being like an Uncle to me, he was a really kind man. As I walked over to Elizabeth's house I started to think to myself 'how could Steve of beaten his wife, no matter how hard things got for him he should not of done that.' It didn't take as long as I expected to walk from my house to
