6/28/2023 0 Comments A simple heart flaubert![]() However, critics have yet to consider the full significance of Loulou’s role as a taxidermic animal. Loulou’s presence in the story frequently plagues critics who struggle to understand why Flaubert concludes his narrative with the protagonist’s fixation on a taxidermic parrot. The stuffing of Loulou allows Félicité to believe that she seizes control of powerful forces, such as death, which, throughout the majority of her life, she faces as only a passive observer. After forming numerous attachments only to outlive her human companions, Félicité preserves the physical form of her last and perhaps closest friend, a parrot called Loulou, when she has the bird stuffed. ![]() Nineteenth-century French novelist Gustave Flaubert draws on this precise intersection in his 1857 short story “A Simple Heart” when detailing the life of the protagonist, a servant named Félicité. This insight not only helps explain human fascination with taxidermy, but also elucidates the intersection of taxidermy, time, and death. Taxidermic animals provide spectators with the illusion of suspended life and, more significantly, suspended death. ![]() Taxidermy, through its haunting presentation of dead/alive, inanimate/animate animal bodies, alters the way in which both human and nonhuman animals experience the passage of time. ![]() ![]() Human life is finite, thus human being possess an innate obsession with the passage of time. ![]()
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