文档介绍：Madame Bovary Study Questions 1. How do you react to the main characters in the book? Do you admire or detest any of them? Do you find any hateful, laughable or pitiable? Can you locate any heroes or villains, good or bad characters? 2. How does the point of view in the novel work, and how does it affect your impressions of the main characters? Pick a passage in which you find the point of view striking, and analyze why it interests you. 3. How would you describe the tone of the book? Does it change? ’ 4. Emma has been called a "hopeless romantic." How and why does she e this kind of person? What was Emma's education like? If Emma is corrupted by reading novels, how does Flaubert deal with the fact that he is himself a novelist? Would Emma's life be the same if she hadn't been sent toa convent school? How is religion presented in the novel? How does Flaubert relate religion to Emma's romanticism? Is Emma ever happy? What does or would it take to satisfy her? Is anyone to blame for her discontent? 5. How does socio-economic class figure in Bovary? How would a Marxist analyze the book? 6. How are gender issues relevant to the novel? To be more specific (and to point this question in only one out of many possible directions): the novel, written bya man, treats a female protagonist. Do you think this has any effect on the portrayal of Emma? Compare and contrast Pride and Prejudice along this axis. What would you say toa critic who claims that Flaubert hates women? 7. Flaubert famously declared his identification with his protagonist with the words, "Emma Bovary, c'est moi" ["Madame Bovary is me"]. What do you think he meant by this? Does he show any affinity for Emma or similarity with her, asa writer ora man? More broadly, are Emma's problems ones that a man can identify with, or are they gender-specific? 8. Emma's reading of romances has a contemporary equivalent: the market for Harlequin romances or soap operas. Who consumes these stories, and what is the appeal of t