Writing Resources
Literature and Composition Quest to Social Climbing In Sentimental Education Gustave Flaubert portrays society and class as elements of destruction on the characters The author favors magnificent detail as he includes an immense degree of vivid descriptions and evades superficiality and excessive commentary People's motives were primarily driven by social climbing opportunities Even class motivates the narrator Frederick Moreau as he uses women and jobs to pursue his class endeavors The protagonist Frederic Moreau has a demeanor which represents how men of the nineteenth century disregarded authority Since Madame Arnoux a woman who catches Frederic s attention at first glance is his motivation she remains the center of all of his hopes and dreams Due to this overpowering force Frederic is unable to have independent ideas that do not correlate with Madame Arnoux
