Research Paper On Madame Bourgeoisie

Madame Bourgeoisie Poor versus rich, peasants versus nobles, and oppressor versus oppressed: the matchups of not only the century, but all time. Within the lifetime of Gustav Flaubert, a similar war was being waged, with the participants being the working, proletarian class, and the middle class of the bourgeoisie. Gustav was a writer, and despite being good at what he did, he still fell somewhere in between the two, leaning more on the proletarian side. Because of this, he absolutely hated the bourgeoisie, and what they stood for. One question a person may ask at this point, however, is why would he dedicate an entire novel to showing the everyday person the supposed glamorous life of a bourgeois person? It is obvious that the majority of those characters he wrote about were …show more content…
The problem with the sort of people in the class buying such things is that they are unappreciative of what their money goes towards. They may buy pieces of philosophical and historical significance, however simply lack the type of mind and ability to be able to recognize the true cognitive worth of such things. Due to the massive prices of these items, they cause expectations to be high of how they will impact the buyer’s life, but only cause disappointment when the person cannot find value within the item they purchased solely for materialistic purposes. This, as we see in Emma, causes the mindset of the person to change to that of one similar to a gambler. They continue to purchase more and more of these expensive commodities, and at higher stakes, because they feel the outcome will be different from the disappointment. For the typical bourgeois person, this only becomes a problem after a ridiculous amount of spending, however, for Emma it became a problem almost instantaneously. This, along with the shame of being unloved by the lovers she cared about, drove her to her inevitable suicide. (Johnsen