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In the article “The Narrator and the Bourgeois Community in ‘Madame Bovary’,” written by Leo Bersai, he discusses how “Flaubert maintains a dual position” in the novel Madame Bovary. Bersai states that Flaub ....

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... is a person watching during the events that happens. The use of third person allows Flaubert to describe the views of he community, but at the same time describe the characters thought. In Madame Bovary Flaubert also make use of many italicized phrases. These, in Bersani’s opinion, are used to distinguish the passages from the rest in other to convey “forms of speech of people within the novel.” They introduce a the characteristics of each character through there form of speech. The italicized phrases are not actually what he character’s say, but rather clichés used to describe a situation. Other times Flau ...