Flaubert in Madame Bovary

The reign of King Louis-Philippe of France during the mid-eighteen hundreds was a period of chaos and class-shifting struggle. The members of the French bourgeois were fighting for their freedom and the right to live under the governing of a republic. Industrial revolution was also occurring in France, shifting the majority of available jobs to urban centers. The result of that shift was the formation of a large rift between the wealthy landowners and industrialists …

…very human aspect to the action of the plot. The realistic way in which Flaubert described the romanticism of his characters paved the pathway for the creation of the modern novel. Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary created a turning point in literary history because it was a combination of a reflection of the times in which it was published, the perfection of tone and sentence structure, and the introduction of an innovative new narrative viewpoint.