%0 Journal Article %T Fragrance of Drunk Desire¡ªExploring the Description of Smell in ¡°Madame Bovary¡± %A Sixuan Liu %J Open Access Library Journal %V 11 %N 2 %P 1-6 %@ 2333-9721 %D 2024 %I Open Access Library %R 10.4236/oalib.1111265 %X Madame Bovary, as a representative work of the great French realist novelist Flaubert, fully showcases Flaubert¡¯s modernist narrative of ¡°objective writing¡±. With objective writing and a daily plot as the starting point, it portrays Emma¡¯s decline process through the meticulous depiction of the environment and things. At present, research on Madame Bovary mainly focuses on the analysis of the character traits, the causes of Emma¡¯s tragedy, and criticism of social reality and romanticism. However, there is relatively little research on the description of the novel¡¯s environment, especially the description of odors in the novel. This article will analyze the text from this perspective and combine it with the famous odor-related treatise Odor¡ªThe Temptation of Secrets by Fulong, Exploring how the author presents the implicit meaning in odor description and narrates it. %K Madame Bovary %K Odor Description %K Flaubert %K Smell¡ªThe Temptation of Secrets %U http://www.oalib.com/paper/6816946