madame bovary help?

Question

why is the yonville abbey and rouen so important?

Answer 1

Flaubert's subtitle of his novel is "Moeurs de province" (provincial lifestyle). Madame Bovary's setting moves between two provincial towns in Normandy: Tostes and Yonville-l'Abbaye (a fictitious name), in "le pays de Caux". The region is a fertile plateau for agriculture and dairying. From there the importance given in the novel to the "Comices Agricoles". As this is essentially an agricultural setting, a more sophisticated town, the city of Rouen, provides a setting for the evening at the Opera and Emma's weekly rendezvous with Léon. Using a real place with which he is familiar makes the descriptions more authentic. One of the themes of the book is the "haine du bourgeois" (hatred of the middle classes), which drives Flaubert to describe the customs of small provincial towns where the characters are mediocre. Homais, the pharmacist, is typically "bourgeois". This theme is also probably in Flaubert’s novel “The Sentimental Education”.

Answer 2

Madame Bovary Setting

Answer 3

There are many reasons. First, Flaubert was born in Rouen. This allowed him to use details in his description, Second, Flaubert wrote in a style known as 'realism' and wanted to portray the lived of ordinary people, not the bourgeoisie and noble classes, so the settings are typical French country settings and smaller provincial cities, like Rouen. Also, Emma's own romantic ideals are contrasted by the surrounding in which she finds herself.

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