A Crack in the Wall, a Wood-worm inside. Reality against Desire in Emma Bovary and Ana Ozores: A Thematic Perspective

Abstract

This article carries out a comparative analysis of the characters of Emma Bovary and Ana Ozores considering the assumptions of thematic criticism. The way that certain cosmological and material elements are regarded as real, brings about a set of recurrent images that acquire symbolical dimension. These images, which are the visible representation of the psycho- sensory level of the text, may relate, therefore, to the specific individual dimension of the way of perceiving and constructing a daydream vision of the real world in the act of writing. However, certain parallelisms can be established in the writings of both, Flaubert and Clarín.