Gustave Eiffel

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.…

The term “ennui” is defined by Merriam-Webster as “a lack of spirit, enthusiasm, or interest” (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ennui). Ennui is typically associated with boredom, general annoyance with the mundane of daily life, and in the case of literature, the eventual need to significantly improve said situation. Ennui, in many variations, is found in works such as Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert, “The Death of Ivan Ilyich” by Leo Tolstoy, and the poem “To the Reader” by Charles…

The necklace is a short story written by Maupassant to present the mentality of people in France during its golden ages. He did that through the use of more familiar characters to the reader who have positives and negatives, following the guidelines of literary realism to give the reader a closer perspective to the life during those days. It is based on a middle class woman who married to a junior clerk in the Ministry of Education. She had an honorable life but always felt that ‘’she was…

AGE OF INNOCENCE By Edith Wharton Character Map : In 1870 how the rich people spending their life ,one of its glimpse shown in Age of Innocence.strong and rich people make their own rules for society,and they were strong obeying that rules and someone or something goes against it they become sad.. The Age of Innocence is the story of a troubled marriage ,Newland Archer is the hero of this novel,one day he came to theater to meet people but there he saw a beautiful girl named “May welland”…

1. In the story “The Necklace”, Mrs. Loisel we learn, is a very gorgeous lady, but lives poorly. She is married to a clerk in the Ministry of Education. She thinks highly of herself, as if she was made to be born into the luxurious lifestyle. She has a friend, Madame Forestier, who is very wealthy, and lends a diamond necklace to Mrs. Loisel. The central conflict of this story is the loss of the diamond necklace. She loses it just after the big ball, and spends the next 10 years of her life…

The nineteenth century was a time of change in the artistic world. Artist started testing limits to see how they could introduce a whole new world of art. Some people considered the art to be a kind of culture shock and a scandalous way to express the artist talents. Scandalous is something that is considered improper, shocking, disgraceful, etc. (dictionary.com). There were three artist that really started this “scandalous” time period and they were Coubet, Daumier, and Manet. These three…

Most people are not born wealthy. They usually come to terms with the fact that they do not have a lot of money and are in a low social class, but some people do not. Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” tells the story of Mathilde Loisel. Mathilde Loisel is a woman of lower economic status who lives in France. She is deeply troubled by the thought that she can not have all of the riches she believes she deserves, although she is blessed with beauty. Her husband, Monsieur Loisel, on the other hand…

Pride is the state of holding one's self or another in high esteem. In the short story “ The Necklace” the main character, Madame Loisel, learns the role pride plays in her life. Although she lived in the upper middle class, Madame Loisel felt she was poor and became unsatisfied with her life. She wanted the world and all its riches and believed she deserved better. Being so hungover in what she didn’t have or what she couldn’t have she lost sight in how good her life already was. She had so…

Living in The Shadows Since the beginning of time women have been presumed to hold certain titles such as “a good housewife” and “supermom”. Expected to be exemplary mothers and wives while managing a home, bringing up children, pleasing and answering to the requests of their husbands, sometimes even having a full- time job. It’s no wonder how one can lose their self to all the demands and wants of the people in their lives. The events in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” and…

Today’s interactive oral helped develop my understanding of the cultural and contextual considerations of the work by making me second guess my opinions on the titular character, Madame Emma Bovary. We discussed whether or not the issues in Emma Bovary's life are caused by herself, or whether or not they were caused by society. Before today, my opinion on Emma was that she was an incredibly unlikable character with a severe lack of redeeming qualities, but after our discussion it became…