Madame Bovary
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Part 1, Chapter 1 Part 1, Chapter 2 Part 1, Chapter 3 Part 1, Chapter 4 Part 1, Chapter 5 Part 1, Chapter 6 Part 1, Chapter 7 Part 1, Chapter 8 Part 1, Chapter 9 Part 2, Chapter 1 Part 2, Chapter 2 Part 2, Chapter 3 Part 2, Chapter 4 Part 2, Chapter 5 Part 2, Chapter 6 Part 2, Chapter 7 Part 2, Chapter 8 Part 2, Chapter 9 Part 2, Chapter 10 Part 2, Chapter 11 Part 2, Chapter 12 Part 2, Chapter 13 Part 2, Chapter 14 Part 2, Chapter 15 Part 3, Chapter 1 Part 3, Chapter 2 Part 3, Chapter 3 Part 3, Chapter 4 Part 3, Chapter 5 Part 3, Chapter 6 Part 3, Chapter 7 Part 3, Chapter 8 Part 3, Chapter 9 Part 3, Chapter 10 Part 3, Chapter 11
Themes
All Themes Abstraction, Fantasy, and Experience The Sublime and the Mundane Love and Desire Causes, Appearances, and Boredom Truth, Rhetoric, and Hypocrisy
Quotes
Characters
All Characters Emma Bovary Charles Bovary Rodolphe Boulanger Léon Dupuis Monsieur Homais Monsieur Lheureux The elder Madame Bovary Berthe Bovary Monsieur Rouault Hippolyte
Symbols
All Symbols “The big blue country”
Literary Devices
All Literary Devices Alliteration Allusions Flashbacks Foil Foreshadowing Genre Hyperbole Imagery Irony Mood Motifs Setting Similes Situational Irony Style Tone
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Madame Bovary

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Gustave Flaubert
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