Madame Bovary and Crime and Punishment

In the novels Madame Bovary and Crime and Punishment, the authors, Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Gustave Flaubert, use children to reflect the consequences of their parent’s actions. The authors portray these consequences through the children with the of the purpose of Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary and Marmeladov in Crime and Punishment, learning the lessons of fatherhood and motherhood. Gustave Flaubert uses unique writing style to develop the relationship between children and consequences. Fyodor Dostoyevsky also uses creative style in establishing a link between the two.

In Madame Bovary, Flaubert uses his style in revealing Emma Bovary’s consequences through her daughter Berthe. After Emma’s marriage to Charles Bovary, Emma becomes pregnant. She hopes for a boy, though when she delivers the baby, it turns out to be a baby girl, Berthe. She faints when the baby is born, and soon becomes withdrawn after Berthe’s birth. Soon after Berthe’s birth, Emma begins leading a life of infidelity. Berthe suffers from these affairs, with Leon and Rodolphe, later on in her life.

She longed for a son. He would be strong and dark, and she would call him George. This idea that she might have a male child was sort of anticipatory compensat

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Although Sonya is a prostitute, the author shows sympathy for her and her helpless position. Sonya takes on one of the most judged personas in that period of time and even in modern times, as a result of her father’s poor choices and drunkenness. When Emma is significant in the novel, Berthe is not and vice versa. Even Raskolnikov loves her regardless of what she is doing as her job, in order to provide for her family. Berthe stumbled and fell against a brass fitting at the foot of the chest-of-drawers. She begins a profession of prostitution as a supplement for her father’s income and to make sure needs are met in the home. In fact, during late 1850s to early 1860s in Russia, it was often very common for women to support themselves in this type of work. Emma is the protagonist in the novel and the plot is based on her life. Marmeladov, also known as the town drunk in Crime and Punishment, is the father of Sonya. Sonya grows up in the home of a drunk, Marmeladov. “But the good old lady died that same year. He becomes regretful of what he does not sacrifice for his family though. The author feels sorrowful for the path that Sonya has had to travel as a result of Marmeladov, and in some instances, in the author’s tone anger is seen towards Marmeladov.

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