Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' / Social Classes
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5 pages in length. Flaubert's story is set in 19th Century France, a time of great class distinction. The story provides us a glimpse of characters representing each of the social classes with four individual who are striving to be come part of the bourgeoisie. The title character, Emma Bovary is obsessed with changing her social status and engages in activities she believes will lead her to happiness, instead, they leads to her destruction. Bibliography lists approximately 8 sources.
Filename: Bovary19.wps

Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'/ Illusion vs. Reality
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A 4 page paper discussing the main character's flights of fancy. It concludes that in this novel Flaubert contrasts romance with Romanticism, and shows how romance comes up short. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Bovary.wps

Gustave Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary'/ Tragedy
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A 4 page paper describing Madame Bovary. The writer argues the thesis that the novel is really about the tragedy of dreaming or living in a fantasy. No additional sources cited.
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Sense and Sensuality in “Madame Bovary”
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A 4 page paper looking at Flaubert’s classic book in terms of the protagonist’s struggle for meaning in her life. The paper argues that Emma Bovary is the result of what happens when a society gives women nothing to do but dream, nothing to care about but themselves, and nothing to look forward to except more of the same. Bibliography lists three sources.
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Sex and Money in 'Madame Bovary' By Gustave Flaubert
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A 3.5 page critical analysis on the validity of the statement describing Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel, 'Madame Bovary,' as, 'Sex lies at the base of what happens: Along with money it is the key to the conflicts of the novel, an sexual and economic life are so intimately interwoven that one cannot understand the one unless one understands the other.' Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TGbovary.rtf

The Development of Class Consciousness in Germinal by Emile Zola
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A 6 page analysis of Emile Zola's masterpiece Germinal. The writer argues that it is the sociological aspects of this novel that make it so fascinating as Zola examines the beginnings of labor movement at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Quotations from the source. No additional sources cited.
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Zola's 'Germinal' / A Reaction
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A 3 page essay on the Emile Zola novel 'Germinal.' The writer details the main characters and the ideologies they represent, as well as some of the key incidents in the book. No bibliography.
Filename: Zola.rtf

Zola's 'Germinal' / Conditions of Women in Nineteenth-Century French Mines
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A 6 page paper looking at some of the underlying social causes for the miners' strike described in Emile Zola's book. The paper, which takes the form of the report of a contemporary observer, concludes that change will have to be imposed on the system from without, as it is unlikely to come from within. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: Zolagerm.rtf

Existentialism and Sartre’s “The Wall”
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A 4 page paper looking at the presence of existentialist thought in this short story by Jean Paul Sartre. The paper argues that for Sartre, the lack of causality in human life, together with the lack of a beneficent force in the universe, forces every human being to forge his own meaning -- something the protagonist has not done. No sources.
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Jean Paul Sartre's 'The Wall'
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A 1 page summary of Sartre's short story. It reflects Sartre's interest in the ultimate lack of causality in life through the depiction of the 'last night' of a group of prisoners condemned to die in the morning. The narrator in fact does not die, but he might as well have, because he has psychologically been absorbed into the wall separating life from death, and there is no going back. No sources.
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Jean Paul Sartre's 'La Nausee'/ Motif of Nausea
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A 9 page paper examining the significance of the protagonist's sensation of nausea throughout this book. The paper concludes that for Sartre, the nausea symbolizes his protagonist's ultimate recognition of life's futility. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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