Madame Bovary and Crime and Punishment
In the novels Madame Bovary and Crime and Punishment, the authors, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Gustave Flaubert, use children to reflect the consequences of their parent's actions. The authors portray these consequences through the children with the of the purpose of Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary and Marmeladov in Crime and Punishment, learning the lessons of fatherhood and motherhood. Gustave Flaubert uses unique writing style to develop the relationship between children and consequences. Fyodor Dostoyevsky also uses creative style in establishing a link between the two. In Madame Bovary, Flaubert uses his style in revealing Emma Bovary's consequences through her daughter Berthe. After Emma's marriage to Charles Bovary, Emma becomes pregnant. She hopes for a boy, though when she delivers the baby, it turns out to be a baby girl, Berthe. She faints when the baby is born, and soon becomes withdrawn after Berthe's birth. Soon after Berthe's birth, Emma begins leading a life of infidelity. Berthe suffers from these affairs, with Leon and Rodolphe, later on in her life. She longed for a son. He would be strong and dark, and she would call him George. This idea that she might have a male child was sort of anticipatory compensat
In Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky uses contrast within the Marmeladov Family and repeats key words and phrases to show importance within the novel. Marmeladov, also known as the town drunk in Crime and Punishment, is the father of Sonya. Similar to Berthe in Madame Bovary, Sonya also suffers the consequences of a parental figure in her life. Sonya grows up in the home of a drunk, Marmeladov. As a result of her father's actions, Sonya has to learn to raise her other younger siblings and maintain order in the household. She begins a profession of prostitution as a supplement for her father's income and to make sure needs are met in the home. Sonya takes on one of the most judged personas in that period of time and even in modern times, as a result of her father's poor choices and drunkenness. Here, look. She's drunk. She's been walking along the boulevard. God knows who she is or where she's from, but she doesn't look like she's in the trade. Most likely somebody got her drunk and seduced her... for the first time... understand?' And then he just dumped her out on the street. Look at how her dress is torn; look at how it was put on. She was dressed, you see, she didn't dress herself, and the hands that dressed her were pretty clumsy at this job, man's hands. That's clear. Now look over there. This dandy I was about to tangle with, I don't know him, I see him for the first time. But he noticed her on the street just now too, drunk as she was, lost in some gaze, and he wanted to take her off somewhere (Dostoyevsky, 1864, p. 46). Although Sonya is a prostitute, the author shows sympathy for her and her helpless position. Tertiary characters and others highlight the author's attitude and tone towards Sonya in conversation between themselves. The author feels sorrowful for the path that Son
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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