Why does Lubbock say the subject of Madame Bovary (Emma) needs both an inside view and an outside view?
Lubbock argues (Ch. VI) that Emma needs the inside view because part of the book's subject is her own sense of her world, and needs an outside view because her intelligence is too feeble to render that world or herself fully. He generalises: wherever the matter is the experience of a simple soul, the story must be viewed as that person saw it, yet that person cannot tell it in full, so 'a shift of the vision is necessary'. He adds that in Madame Bovary no other character in the story can supply the outside view, so the author's own must. This is Lubbock's argument about this book, plus one stated general claim.
Lubbock argues (Ch. VI) that Emma needs the inside view because part of the book's subject is her own sense of her world, and needs an outside view because her intelligence is too feeble to render that world or herself fully. He generalises: wherever the matter is the experience of a simple soul, the story must be viewed as that person saw it, yet that person cannot tell it in full, so 'a shift of the vision is necessary'. He adds that in Madame Bovary no other character in the story can supply the outside view, so the author's own must. This is Lubbock's argument about this book, plus one stated general claim.
Curator qualifications: 'Simple soul' dilemma is Lubbock's general statement.
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