Part one of term paper
. Striving for higher social status has been the downfall of many, many people just as it was the destruction of Emma Bovary. In Nineteenth Century France, several class existed: peasant or working class, middle class, upper-middle class, bourgeois, gentry and aristocratic. In the story, Madame Bovary, we see a number of individuals striving ...

Part two of term paper
... Bovary” kept up appearances but they would never quite make it to the full rank of bourgeois. Because the level of one’s social class status is determined so much by appearances, an individual can keep up a good front and be accepted into the circle when they are out of town where no-one knows the truth. Both Emma and Homais followed this practice in their pursuits to really belong. “Madame Bovary” is about a sense of self, a search for personal identity and reality versus illusion. Th ...