The Origin of Emma and Nora, From Henrik Ibsens "A doll's house" and Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary"

        Gustave Flaubert and Henrik Ibsen be twain known as great writers and

harsh loving critics. In fact when Flauberts masterpiece Madame Bovary was

released, he was arrested on the rationality that his novel was morally and

religiously offensive to the public, despite the fact that it was a bestseller. Also

Henrik Ibsens A Dolls House was such a slap in the face to many Europeans

that it was banned in some countries and rewrite in Germany so that it had a

happy ending. Some people in Norway level(p) attributed the rising divorce rate to

this play! What is it that drove both of these authors to be such harsh social

critics? What exactly were their views? And what drove these two authors to

create two of their most famous characters: Nora, from A Dolls House, and

Emma from Madame Bovary? An sagacity into the background of these authors

reveals that both Nora and Emma are reflections of social and political viewpoints

of their authors, and are at least partially based on people that the authors knew.

        First of all, it is important to know the socio-economic status and

background of the two authors. It is likewise good to at least have an idea most the

society in which they lived.



Then it is possible to see why they had certain

viewpoints and how these viewpoints had an takings on the personalities and

actions of their characters.

        Gustave Flaubert was born on December 12, 1821 in Rouen, France to a

wealthy surgeon. As a boy he was well aware of the incompetency in the medical

profession, and the middle class lip service which he portrayed through Homais

in Madame Bovary. In his college years, Flaubert began to despise the middle

class even more as he became enthralled in the romantic writings...

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