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Refrigerator Door (AKA Sample Student Work) Remember when your parents used to put your exemplary work on the refrigerator door? Well, I am a dad . . . . Maggie Rozell Flaubert illustrates his critique of romanticism by creating the romantic character of Emma and having her exist in a realistic world. By creating Emma Bovary with all of her romantic far-flung notions about a world filled with wealth, beautiful cities, and romance with no consequences, yet putting her in a realistic setting, Flaubert critiques the idea of romanticism and makes it seem outlandish.<<<NICE SET UP Preparing for her upcoming wedding Flaubert writes, "Emma herself would have liked to be married at midnight, by torchlight; but Rouault wouldn't listen to the idea." (1102)<<PERIOD GOES HERE The passage illustrates Flaubert's character Emma having an unrealistic romantic notion of her wedding but uses her father as the foil to the character saying he wouldn't even listen to such an unrealistic idea. Flaubert consistently uses Emma as a vehicle for romantic ideals in a realistic world by putting her into circumstances where her wildest dreams are contemplated, yet every time she tries to act upon her romantic impulses, the real world or realistic characters make her look ridiculous. <<<GREAT SET UP Shortly after the wedding, Emma found herself unhappy.<<COLON "Emma tried to imagine just what was meant, in life, by the words "bliss," "passion," and "rapture" --words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books." (1108)<<<PERIOD HERE Almost immediately after her wedding she was forced to face the fact that she was not living in a romantic new world, but just married to an ordinary man in an ordinary life. Emma's romantic notion of what her life should contain makes her second guess her marriage to Charles. By putting Emma into situation after situation throughout the whole novel, Flaubert insinuates her romanticism is a charchter<<<SP flaw which ultimately leads to her demise in a realistic world. Emma is Flaubert's critique of Romanticism. Flaubert. "Madame Bovary." The Norton Anthology of World Literature, Vol. E. Ed. Sarah Lawall, et al. New York, New York: WW Norton & Company. 2002. 1102-1108. Print. GREAT WORK MS. ROZELL. EVERYTHING COMES TOGETHER HERE -- CLEAR TOPIC, SETTING UP OF ARGUMENT, QUOTE AND THEN COMMENTARY ON THE QUOTE.
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