Examples Of Realism In A Simple Heart By Flaubert

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Gustave Flaubert has overcome much negativity in his life when he was growing up. When beginning he’s journey to become a writer he was crucially criticized for his work. Once critic criticized his Madam Bovary novel as “Offending public morals and religion”(709). Through Flaubert’s journey he may have been judged and been out casted but he never gave up on his true dream. In the story “A Simple Heart” written by Gustave Flaubert he introduces three main elements in his story as techniques. First he introduces “it’s economy” with words, next he presents the “objectivity of his narrative style,” and finally the “story’s structure of repeating the same pattern over and over “(710). Flaubert’s goal was “to tell the unvarnished truth about the …show more content…
Hedda is a very controlling and complex character in this book. She controls her new husband into buying this grand house that she doesn’t really want. Furthermore, she tends controls Judge Brack with her sexual charisma that in no way leads to anything physical. Hedda also controls Eilert Lovborg her former affair mate which she obviously never truly cared about him just the beauty of his death. During the middle of the play we realize Heddas sanity. In the play Lovborg is a recovering alcoholic who once again has gotten drunk. Lovborg loses his script due to his unstable sanity and wants to kill himself. “No, wait! Take a souvenir to remember me by. {She goes over to the writing table, opens the drawer and the pistol case. She returns to Lovborg with one of the pistols.}”(827) Later in the story Lovborg as accidentally shot himself with the pistol, which was really intended for him to commit suicide. Once Hedda realizes that there is no escaping this life of unhappiness from the unwanted house, her pregnancy drama, and her about to go to jail due to the pistol she gave Lovborg she decided to take her own life. “{A shot is heard within TESMAN, Mrs. Elvested and Brack all jump to their feet} Oh, shes playing with those pistols again. {He pulls the curtains aside and runs in. MRS ELVSTED follows. Hedda is stretched out lifeless on the sofa. Confusion and cries. BERTA comes running in from the right.} {Shreiking from BRACK} Shot herself in the temple! Just think!”(838) These prime examples are simple techniques that Ibsen has used to portray realism though ordinary language, and the examination of complex

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