Part 1 of Essay
In the article “The Narrator and the Bourgeois Community in ‘Madame Bovary’,” written by Leo Bersai, he discusses how “Flaubert maintains a dual position” in the novel Madame Bovary. Bersai states that Flaubert make Emma’s dreams seem important and gives it “dignity” b ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... but at the same time describe the characters thought. In Madame Bovary Flaubert also make use of many italicized phrases. These, in Bersani’s opinion, are used to distinguish the passages from the rest in other to convey “forms of speech of people within the novel.” They introduce a the characteristics of each character through there form of speech. The italicized phrases are not actually what he character’s say, but rather clichés used to describe a situation. Other times Flaubert ....