The fictional works of Flannery O'Connor elicit several levels of emotion within the weave of racism and prejudice. The writer compares and contrasts the two stories with respect to their representation of racial intolerance. A 7 page essay discussing the difference between art written for art's sake and art written for life's sake. It particularly discusses Flaubert, Ibsen, Dostoevsky and Yeats, and examines how each of these authors fit into the Romantic tradition of the artist as both spokesperson and iconoclast, and how each of these works discussed represent art created for life's sake.
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A 7 page paper describing Madame Bovary. The writer puts forth the thesis that Madame Bovary is a 'Female Quixote' due to her living in romantic illusion versus reality using analysis and passages from the novel to illustrate this. The primary source is cited. Emma Bovary, convent-educated and given to flights of fancy and a very bourgeois love of romantic novels, seeks the fulfillment of her fantasies, believing that such fulfillment is not only possible but right around the corner. Flaubert uses his entire bag of fiction-writing tricks to construct a masterful portrayal of an ultimately tragic and foolish woman too much in love with her illusions.