“Her tenderness, in fact, grew daily as her repulsion toward her husband increased. The more she yielded to one, the more she loathed the other. Never did Charles seem so unattractive, slow witted, clumsy and vulgar as she met him after her rendez-vous with Rudolphe. Then while playing the part of a virtuous wife, sheContinue reading “RKS Literature: Madame Bovary Thinks Her Husband Charles is Clumsy and Vulgar (Flaubert)”
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RKS Literature: Initial Delusions of Emma Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
“All the while, however, she was waiting in her heart for something to happen. Like shipwrecked sailors, she turned despairing eyes upon the solitude of her life, seeking afar some white sail in the mists of the horizon. She did not know what this act of fortune would be, what wind would bring it, towardContinue reading “RKS Literature: Initial Delusions of Emma Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)”
RKS Literature: Priests Wallowing in Squalid Ignorance (Gustave Flaubert)
“I believe in the Supreme Being, in a Creator whatever he may be. I care little who has placed us here below to fulfill our duties as citizens and parents; but I don’t need to go to a church to kiss silver plates and fatten, out of my pocket, a lot of good-for-nothings who liveContinue reading “RKS Literature: Priests Wallowing in Squalid Ignorance (Gustave Flaubert)”
RKS Literature: “Madame Bovary”: Her Useless Husband Charles (Gustave Flaubert)
“Why, at least, was not her husband one of those silently determined men who work at their books all night, and at last, when at sixty rheumatism was upon them, wear a string of medals on their ill-fitting black coat? She would have wished this name of Bovary, which was hers, to be illustrious. ToContinue reading “RKS Literature: “Madame Bovary”: Her Useless Husband Charles (Gustave Flaubert)”
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