Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Flaubert's oft-quoted assertion that "Madame Bovary, c'est moi," would lead one to believe that--if Emma Bovary is indeed a self-referential creation--the author himself must have been a character of depth and contradiction...
However, Herbert Lottman's biography Flaubert never manages to bring out that character. While it hints vaguely, almost unintentionally, at contradiction and complexity in the famous author's life, the biography mires itself in dates and detail to such an extent that the personality it seeks to describe is nearly lost...
...seems that the author himself became a frequent figure at the Parisian salons and dinners, despite the fact that he frequently referred to himself as a "bear" or a "hermit," hibernating away from the bourgeois society which he held in great disdain...
...contradictions like this one--and Flaubert's refusal to marry, despite the fact that he had many lovers and professed himself "in love" several times--lie the mystery of the author's character which might have led him to identify with the ill-fated Emma Bovary...
...Author Letitia Baldrige, an expert on corporate etiquette, told the audience that ethics begin in the home. Baldrige told parents, "It is your example that will make your children be ethical or not...Monkey see, monkey do, as far as children...