Questions:
Madame Bovary: Realism, Symbolism and Detail
1. Identify Four Characteristicts of Nineteenth Century Realism, and show how these are dealt with in Madame Bovary?
2. What is the importance of the "clubfoot episode" in Madame Bovary? What do we learn from the actions of thte participants and from Flaubert's style of using detail?
3. Discuss the Sybolism of wedding bourquets (both Emma's and the first Madame Bovary's) in Madame Bovary?