[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 38 KB, 312x500, 2175.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
19164492 No.19164492 [Reply] [Original]

The moral judgments in Madame Bovary ignore every principle except that of the artist who violates and dwells on every human action. Some people revel in the way Madame Bovary depicts love, taking it for a sound criticism of romantic rubbish, put forward by a robust conscience, and they do not see that this robust conscience is nothing more than a close scrutiny and a showy parade of sordid human emotions. How could one live on the lines of Madame Bovary? In one way only: by aping the artist shut up indoors.
Be careful not to take seriously Flaubert's reviews of reality. They are based on no other principle but this: all is filth, except the conscientious artist.

>> No.19164565

>>19164492
There are no moral judgements on any of the characters, not even Lheureux. Any moral judgements are being made by you the reader. Flaubert was very careful to write it such that the narrator makes no moral judgements on any of the characters.

>> No.19164608

Deranged whore got what she deserved; too bad she was not raped by the guy she owned all that money to.

>> No.19164656

Madame Bovary c'est moi.

>> No.19164841

>>19164656
Anywhere near London?

>> No.19165565

>>19164492
Bump