Madame Bovary 5

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an example of "role reversal"?
And while quite willful, she proves incapable of action on her own (until her suicide). She manipulates, then lives vicareously through others--which looks a lot to me like a take on conservative stereotypes, a quite UNreversed woman who can't gone amuck. She *fantasizes* male creative action, and identifies with it (though she can't even manage that--her fantasy is of herself mirrored in the glory of her hero, with ivy leaves in his hair--the perfect, worshipful female!) Yes, she denies her innate, feminine creative role, childbearing (how often are we reminded of this?!)
Concerned Supreme Court nominees need only refer to the precedent set in the last scene of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabbler, where Hedda admits, “I am in your power, Judge Brack. You have me at your beck and call, from this time forward.” Then she shoots herself in the head. That’s the archetypal nineteenth-century woman saying “yes” and meaning ...

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