Painting Write Now

This painting is different from the others we have seen before because of its color mainly. It contains pink, bright red, and a joyful ambiance. The bright blue and green contrast with the warm colors and make it look sparkly, and highlighting.
Aside from the cheerful color, it includes a comic character which is not defined as anything common in real life. It is strange but jolly.
This could be meta fiction since the creature who is the artist in the painting is painting itself in another canvas inside, and we are admiring this pattern of painters.

The Luck of Being Born

In my reading of Leaves of Grass I found a very significant quote that made me think "Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?

I hasten to inform him or her, it is just as lucky to die, and I know it." This is an extremely significant question to ask to oneself, to the universe. it has crossed my mind now for over 100 times in my life the reason for my existence in this earth. Is it luck? Was it chance? The possibilities of me not standing here, breathing, writing, living are extremely big. I could not be alive. With this I must disagree with Whitman, for it is pure luck to be born. So many misfortunes that could happen, there is just a small chance of being born the way you are. The number of people versus the chances of our parents getting together, and that magically you are slapped together into what you see today in the mirror. He made me question the possibility of fate. If my chances of existing are so slim then there must be purposed behind my existance. He is probably trying to give that idea that everything is controlled by fate, we are born and we die because it is inevitable. Although the fact we are here is very likely just luck I do understand why Whitman says this. The alternatives are so great and the possibility of things existing the way they do is so small that believing in fate is a logical choice. We have to trust the ways of the universe, or else we don't have a choice of existing.

Celebrating The World

"I Celebrate myself;
And what I assume you shall assume;
For every atom belonging to me,
as good belongs to you."

When Whitman creates this poem he is exploiting the fact of believing the world as a whole. Us being part of one whole magnum force be it G-d , or some specific part of the universe. We could be part of a whole, why not? This can be considered for the reason of actually wanting to be part of a community. For fright of being left alone, away from the pack.
But what Whitman could possibly mean with this, is that like he celebrates himself, everybody can do that too, to themselves and to him.
His theory of being part of a whole includes an almost Socialist thinking believing that since we are all part of the same matter, meaning that we are all made up from the same energy therefore we must all own each others atoms, brains, and neurons being able to think the same way.
He shares himself, and he shares it with his poems, that are rejected in the moment they are published. His atoms are denied.

The End of Felicite

As I continued to read through A Simple Soul I came across a quote that I really liked.This quote happens when It alks about"The grass exhaled an odour of summer; flies buzzed in the air, the sun shone on the river and warmed the slated roof. Old Mother Simon had returned to Felicite and was peacefully falling asleep"(Chapter 5, paragraph 1). This happens just before Felicite dies. The meaning of this quote is that even thought she is dying and her life has been utterly wasted, the birds still sing. This can also be seen in Slaughter House Five with Po-tee-weet meaning that even though the war happened and that people died, the birds still sing. the world keeps on moving. It can also be seen in many Holocaust books like Night and Cage. After they exited the camps, the birds kept on singing. And when they were in the camps, the day was sunny and beautiful. It was always an amazing day when they were slaughtered in the concentration camps. And so on. This happened as well to Felicite. She was forgotten, while the children sang outside under the beautiful sunny day. The World goes on.

The Only Savior Is Lost

For a soul in despair the only thing that can save it is another soul. By the time Felicite was young, she fell in love. Her life had been miserable from her birth and on, but he was still young and did not expect that she was going to be bleak until the day of her death. At this point it was probable that she could have expected more in life. and so after falling in love her fate could have been much different. Maybe a family, a good house. This could have been the only point in which in the novel, the plot could have been different. But obviously, it is at the mercy and hands of Mr. Flaubert, and it wouldn't be a Simple Heart if she had lived happily ever after in a beautiful house in the country. When her love was lost,the story's main theme got into track giving the reader and Felicite no hope until the last page has been turned. As she lost him, her heart closed up to any other lovable prospect: "When the time grew near, she ran to meet her lover. But instead of Theodore, one of his friends was at the meeting-place. He informed her that she would never see her sweetheart again; for, in order to escape the conscription, he had married a rich old woman, Madame Lehoussais, of Toucques"(Chapter 2, Page 2, Paragraph 3).

Theodore had also betrayed his heart for he had given it away to a false love, in order to escape the hardships of life, that his preceding counterpart would suffer all of her life. He has wasted his opportunity to love, he is placing love and money in the very common balance. The money won, and Felicite lost her chance to be saved from her misery, but as we well know this could have never happened.

The Genesis Of Felicite

After the first chapter, the reader is bewildered. It is expected for the novel to be torment full, but maybe one does not consider the reasons or meaning of the misery that is seen. to begin with the sole name of "Felicite". This means extreme happiness, almost euphoria. This is the way in which Flaubert mocks his own character by giving her a name that does not match the way in which this character is going to survive and live inside the novel. This way maybe foreshadowing for a brief moment the irony that can be found in the novel, and the way a woman suffers from the day she was born, and only achieves happiness the day of her death.:"Like every other woman, she had had an affair of the heart"(Chapter 2, Paragraph 1). This is referring to the rough childhood and rupture in her family when she was young. But as Flaubert refers to it, as an episode every other woman has, he is burring Felicite even more into the ground. He is treating her as a normal being, when she is not. She is the heart an humble but harsh example of a miserable life in the 19th century in Europe were the height of snobbery existed, and in the deepest sewer, people with lives like Felicite. And so, as Flaubert tries to compare the troubles of Felicite to any other woman's troubles he is taking her importance away to make her even more gloomy, even to the book itself.
He could also mean that women suffer too much, but that would be drifting of the main point of the novel, with no sense in the deep meaning of it. The more sensitive and according interpretation could be the fact that after she has been doomed all of her life, her heart exists and is obviously the objective of the novel, the way in which her simple heart is able to appreciate things, even if at the end of er life, and simplicity to the point of having an exotic view of what she though was heaven. Her heart made her feel more than a simple soul would have, and this is why Felicite lived the way she did, to proof the simplicity, but honesty of a person's true heart and soul.

Vesta's Clock and Madame Aubain

It is quite interesting the simplicity of the way in which Flaubert's style shifts from a rich and envied woman, to a woman who is poor now, and lives in a rather run down house. In the wall, a clock is hanging. But not any clock. It is a clock resembling the temple of Vesta, the goddess of home, hearth, and household. but in the scene that is depicted here, the idea of "vestal" is contrary to what is being described. "On either side of the yellow marble mantelpiece, in Louis XV. style, stood a tapestry armchair. The clock represented a temple of Vesta; and the whole room smelled musty, as it was on a lower level than the garden(chapter one)".
Madame Aubin now lives in a different way she lived before. Her house is no temple of Vesta. On the contrary, she is deprived of all she had before. The novel is not centered only in Felicite, as many other readers have interpreted. The novel does emphasize in her life, but it also shows how in others life is seen, and actually lived. but in the first sentences, Madame Aubin is perfectly described. once wealthy, but now she is lost maybe with the absence of her husband, or with the fact of having no more ambition in life. She worked, and slept. She aged quickly. "It communicated with a smaller room, in which there were two little cribs, without any mattresses"(chapter one). This is almost conspicuous since after a life of sorrow, a woman expects not to have any children. She is left with that emotional emptiness of a a heart full of love never used, and her arms empty for ever. The cribs are her desire, but there is no mattress that can hold a child. In the first pages, the book contains misery already.

Gustav Flaubert. Simple Soul

I am using a different copy of A Simple Soul.
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Gustave_Flaubert/A_Simple_Soul/Chapter_I_p1.html

Gustav Flaubert. Simple Soul

I am using a different copy of A Simple Soul.
http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Gustave_Flaubert/A_Simple_Soul/Chapter_I_p1.html