Comparison: Madame Bovary and Great Expectations

<Tab/>Flaubert and Dickens both fall into the categories of Realist writing and social analysis and criticism. Both were preoccupied with demonstrating the classed-based nature of the society of their respective times and places in history. Both Pip and Emma Bovary spend their time seeking to change their status in society, and the two extracts lay bare the difficulties with which they are presented. Whilst Emma tries her hardest to seem at ease with the elevated company with which she finds herself because of her new husband's position, Pip struggles to understand the changi…