But this shadow figure, represented in the Flaubertian novel, reversely imposes a desire to escape where the opposite figure, the athlete, the subject figure of a word which, transformed by a desire for freedom, for emancipation, tries to escape the grip of macho ideology. In this regard, the female figure, as apprehended, appears as a shadow. All this gives her the status as an object-figure or an “objectal” figure. Bound to be a spouse and a housewife, she has no legal existence, no real identity but is recognized through her husband, her history merging with his. At first sight, the study shows the woman as a malevolent being who is satisfied with what is inessential and who wallows in a sort of immanence. The Female Figure in Gustave Flaubert’s Madame BovaryĪBSTRACT: This paper aims to depict, in the light of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, the French female figure under the Second Empire.
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