Madame Bovary

Ah! it is but a little thing, death! she thought. I shall fall asleep and all will be over.

Charles's courtship → Emma's adulteries with Rodolphe and Léon → debt, arsenic, family ruin—each affair escalates with pitiless causal logic,故情节 92。

The new fellow articulated in a stammering voice an unintelligible name.

Emma, Charles, Rodolphe, Léon, Homais—variants on provincial desire and hypocrisy; Charles's mocked cap establishes mediocrity that traps Emma before her awakening,故人物 90。

She was studying herself curiously, to see if she were not suffering. But no! nothing as yet.

Part-based dilation in Yonville and Rouen with compressed catastrophe in Part III—reader experiences Emma's boredom and ecstasy at tempo of provincial life,故节奏 85。

Emma, on entering, felt herself wrapped round by the warm air, a blending of the perfume of flowers and of the fine linen, of the fumes of the viands, and the odour of the truffles.

Le mot juste—ball scene, Rouen cab ride, arsenic death—every sentence tested for precision; founding text of literary realism as craft discipline,故文笔 95。

The red claws of lobsters hung over the dishes; rich fruit in open baskets was piled up on moss; there were quails in their plumage.

Tostes, Yonville, Rouen, pharmacy, agricultural fair—Norman bourgeois aspiration and satire; Homais's newspaper and blind beggar as chorus,故世界观 91。

He stood up; his cap fell. The whole class began to laugh. He stooped to pick it up. A neighbor knocked it down again with his elbow.

Charles's mocked cap at school establishes mediocrity trapping Emma before romantic awakening—ironic rather than sensational ignition,故开篇钩 86。

He stood up; his cap fell. The whole class began to laugh. He stooped to pick it up. A neighbor knocked it down again with his elbow.

Novel that made realism a method—adultery without moralizing, bourgeois life anatomized through style; prosecuted for obscenity, defined modern fiction,故创新 96。

He has just received the cross of the Legion of Honour.

Emma's arsenic death, Charles's grief-death, Berthe in the mill, Homais decorated—cruelest social irony in realist canon; bourgeois world continues without redemption,故结局 93。