A simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert is the story of a maid called Felicite that worked for Madame Aubain as a maid. She is a very sad and lonely person. She has never find real lasting love in her life and has no children. Throughout the story we can see Felicite love people and animals around her. But each of them, the ones she loves the most always end up dead.
Victor her Nephew and son to her sister was one of the persons Felicite loved the most. He was hired as a sailor and again this can be a way to show how people will just walk away or be dragged away even when the people that love them most will stay behind. Felicite is condemned to be alone and loveless. As Victor, the daughter of Madame Aulbain that she loved most Virginia was terribly ill and far away. She eventually died. Felicite tried to protect and be with those she loved, she would go every day to see Virginia when she was ill and far away. People normally do many things for love mostly when this love comes from a mother. Felicite felt a mother like love towards Virginia and when she died it was as if the meaning of her life had just passed away.
"For two, Felicite never left the corpse." (PG 13)
Felicite then received a parrot and called it Loulou. She loved this parrot so much, she saw it as a religious symbol. She lived for that parrot and would treat it as if it was his son. “Loulou, in her isolation, was almost a son, a lover.” (p. 14). This parrot is the most important symbol in the book, this parrot symbolizes the ignorance of Felicite, for she saw him as a religious symbol. When the parrot died, she had him stuffed and kept him in her room. She had several items in her room that reminded her to her past. She had clothes from Virginia, a gift Victor had given her and other similar items that will keep her sadness and misery with her forever.
Flaubert portrays a very superficial vision of life for there is no deep feeling in the story. Felicites life is rushed through in a couple of pages and everything happens so quickly that she doesn’t even realize how much she has lost.
Victor her Nephew and son to her sister was one of the persons Felicite loved the most. He was hired as a sailor and again this can be a way to show how people will just walk away or be dragged away even when the people that love them most will stay behind. Felicite is condemned to be alone and loveless. As Victor, the daughter of Madame Aulbain that she loved most Virginia was terribly ill and far away. She eventually died. Felicite tried to protect and be with those she loved, she would go every day to see Virginia when she was ill and far away. People normally do many things for love mostly when this love comes from a mother. Felicite felt a mother like love towards Virginia and when she died it was as if the meaning of her life had just passed away.
"For two, Felicite never left the corpse." (PG 13)
Felicite then received a parrot and called it Loulou. She loved this parrot so much, she saw it as a religious symbol. She lived for that parrot and would treat it as if it was his son. “Loulou, in her isolation, was almost a son, a lover.” (p. 14). This parrot is the most important symbol in the book, this parrot symbolizes the ignorance of Felicite, for she saw him as a religious symbol. When the parrot died, she had him stuffed and kept him in her room. She had several items in her room that reminded her to her past. She had clothes from Virginia, a gift Victor had given her and other similar items that will keep her sadness and misery with her forever.
Flaubert portrays a very superficial vision of life for there is no deep feeling in the story. Felicites life is rushed through in a couple of pages and everything happens so quickly that she doesn’t even realize how much she has lost.
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