Monsieur Flaubert was born in 1821 in the very town in which "Madame Bovary" takes place: Rouen, France. Who ever would have guessed that the creative guy had two pretty cut and dry parents. His father was a surgeon and his mother was the daughter of a doctor. In analyzing the childhood of M. Flaubert, Dr. Shelley and I both agree that he was a dried up fruit of a boy, lacking any sort of imagination until the point where he SNAPPED, and as a result the book "Madame Bovary" was conceived. The novel reflects that he did not become a creative artsy-fartsy type, rather he used his imagination to give the novel an antiromantic style with underlying romantic impulses. In fact, Flaubert took quite a liking to this style he had incorporated into his works, and became affiliated with the Naturalist School, a group of "artists" who liked to use medical precision to more accurately describe the world around them. The question is, Why did Flaubert write "Madame Bovary?" Some speculate that it was based on the true romantic story of Flaubert and his "mistress," Elisa Schlesinger, a married woman eleven years his elder. Others believe that it was just a satire on Romantic beliefs and the bourgeousie. But, We the Doctors of love, know why he wote this bizarre love traingle. You see, he had daily appointments to come and lay on our couch. We asked him many questions, and for one month all he would say was this: "Madame Bovary is Myself." Flaubert lived until 1880 and is known today as just another 18th century Psychological Realist.
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