FFlaubert's provincial customs
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1. Gustave Flaubert spent five years writing "Madame Bovary", whose subtitle is "Provincial Customs". The novel depicts the tragic life of Emma, the only daughter of a wealthy peasant in a provincial town, and condemns the corrupt and vulgar society.
II. Classic excerpt from "Madame Bovary": She opened her eyes wide in despair, gazing at the loneliness of her life. Like a sailor on a sinking ship, she searched far and wide for the trace of a white sail in the misty horizon.
III. She believed that love should arrive suddenly, like a bolt of lightning flashing and thunder rumbling, akin to a fierce gale from the heavens, sweeping through the world, overturning life, and sweeping away willpower, carrying the heart to the abyss like a leaf being swept away.
Fourth, the satin robe was as white as moonlight, shimmering like ripples. She was wrapped inside, as if she had disappeared.
5. He felt that she had left her body, blurred and merged into the surrounding objects, the silence, the darkness, the passing wind, and the rising moist fragrance, all becoming one.