Gustave Flaubert / Madame Bovary
Essay topics for Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary :
1. Is Madame Bovary solely a product of a particular age or can the issues
raised in this novel be seen as still relevant today?
2. Emma is not the only character in Madame Bovary who suffers from the
impulse to distort life to match a preconceived view of it. Show this on two
other characters.
3. Explain what is meant by the “style indirect libre” and its function in Madame
Bovary. Illustrate your answer with a detailed analysis of three passages of
your choice.
4. Compare the description of society in Flaubert’s Madame Bovary and Tolstoy’s
Death of Ivan Ilyich
Some literature on the book available in the library.
Title:
Approaches to teaching Flaubert's Madame Bovary / edited by
Laurence M. Porter and Eugene F. Gray.
Published:
New York : Modern Language Association of America, 1995.
PQ2246 .M3 A66 1995
Author:
Heath, Stephen, 1945Title:
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary / Stephen Heath.
Spine title:
Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Published:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
PQ2246 .M3 H38 1992
Title:
Published:
PQ2246 .M3 B3
Author:
Title:
Published:
PN3503 .L7 1968
Madame Bovary and the critics :
a collection of essays / edited by B.F. Bart.
[New York] : New York University Press, 1966.
Lovett, Robert Morss, 1870-1956.
Preface to fiction : a discussion of great modern novels.
Freeport, N.Y : Books for Libraries Press, [1968].
Author:
BOPP, LEON
Title:
COMMENTAIRE SUR MADAME BOVARY
PQ2246 .M3 B6