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* [[Chiaroscuro]]: Inasmuch as you can pull off a visual trope on the written page, Flaubert invokes this in his descriptions and symbolism, both to highlight Emma's ideals and just how far from reality they are.
* [[Deconstruction]]: Flaubert wrote this in response to a dare to write a story that differed from the romantic works he'd written before - Emma is a woman trying to live her life by the tropes of her favorite romantic novels, and utterly failing.
* [[Distracted By the Luxury]]: Emma buys a lot of [[
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Because it's so ''romantic''...
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* [[Genre Killer]]: Thanks in part to being such a [[Deconstruction]] of romanticism and romance novels of the time.
* [[Irony]]: For all that Emma tries to distance herself from Charles due to finding him dull and far from her Romantic ideal, he ends up being the character who best lives up to it. {{spoiler|Of course, he doesn't do that until after her death, and it ends up being the death of him, too.}}
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* [[Loan Sharks]]: Thanks to being [[Distracted By the Luxury]], see above.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Lheureux, who goads Emma into the aforementioned [[Distracted By the Luxury]] to eventually take control over all of Charles' estate.
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