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Emma, Edna, Eustacia---Society, Lives, Authors

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Society , Lives and Authors

Three different authors , three different books and three different characters and yet the critics they have received , the praises and accomplishments they achieved and the social issues they face respectively , are the same . Gustave Flaubert , Kate Chopin and Thomas Hardy who are authors of Madame Bovary , The Awakening ' and The Return of the Native ' respectively , experienced critical reviews and was later immortalized because of their novels . The main characters of the three novels , Emma Bovary , Edna Pontellier and

Eustacia Vye all experienced society 's views on women and struggled to get away from it These three characters , these discontented souls , continue to seek pleasure as they learn by experience the realities and people 's views on them in their respective societies

October 1 , 1856 and December 15 , 1856 , these are the dates when Gustave Flaubert 's novel Madame Bovary ' was first serialized in La Revue de Paris . Flaubert is a French writer who was born on December 12 , 1821 and died on May 8 , 1880 . He was considered to be one of the greatest Western novelists because of his scrupulous devotion to his personal art and style which was observed in his first novel , Madame Bovary . On the other hand , Kate Chopin is an American author who was born on February 8 , 1850 and died in August 22 , 1904 . She is well known for her works which mostly have a Louisiana Creole background and was considered to be a predecessor of feminist authors in the nineteenth century . Kate Chopin 's The Awakening ' which was published in 1899 was also considered to be a proto-feminist forerunner to American modernism While Thomas Hardy , who was born in June 2 , 1840 and died in January 11 1928 is an English novelist . Just like Kate Chopin , Thomas Hardy is a well-known short story writer . Furthermore , he is also a poet of the naturalist movement and most of his works are set on the semi-imaginary country of Wessex . Thomas Hardy 's The Return of the Native ' is his sixth published novel and initially came into view in the serial Belgravia . Though these authors may have different styles and art in writing novels , all of them were able to captivate the readers and produced quality works . All of them were able to achieve a higher status of appreciation and immortality from both readers and critics

The road to success of these three authors was not that easy . Their novels as well did not instantly rise to the top or immediately accepted by the society and literary critics . Madame Bovary ' was publicly attacked because of its immorality . By January 1857 , Madame Bovary ' was subjected to a trial but the novel was acquitted by February 7 . After the acquittal , it became a bestseller in April 1857 in its book for and has ever since become one of the most influential and significant French novels . Chopin 's novel was also bombarded with a lot of violent reactions and comments...

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