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A 3 page paper which examines the role of
religion in Gustave Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart.” Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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loss of everything around her, with only her self-created religion to guide her final days" (Museum of Contemporary Art). In this short story we see many images that offer us
a look at the position of religion in this womans life, and we see an examination of that religion through the eyes of the author, Gustave Flaubert. The following paper
examines the role of religion, discussing whether or not Flaubert was praising or mocking religion, whether religion limits her, and what the role of the parrot in all this is
as it relates to religion. A Simple Heart Felicity is, above all, far more than a simple heart. She is a simple soul and a simple intellect. She
does not have the capacity to truly grasps complex thought or enlightened thought. she does not really have the capacity to develop and grow. We can see this in the
following when we see how she has trouble imagining the Holy Spirit, assuming she must "see" it, not just acknowledge its presence: "She had trouble in imagining its shape; for
it was not only a bird, but besides that, a fire, and at other times a breath. Maybe it was its light that flickered at nights on the edge of
the marshes, its breath that pushed the clouds, its voice that made the bells ring sweetly; and she stayed in adoration, enjoying the freshness of the walls and the tranquillity
of the church" (Flaubert III). We see that she understands nothing of what she is being taught in catechism, and we see that she "did not even try to
understand them....It was in this way, by dint of hearing it, that she learned the catechism, her religious education having been neglected in her youth; and from that time she
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