Directions: In the following question, four statements are provided between an opening statement 1 and a closing statement 6. The statements are jumbled up and form a coherent paragraph when properly arranged. Select the alternative representing the proper and logical sequencing of these six taken together.
1. Gustave Flaubert's 'Madamame Bovary' (1857) is the acclaimed masterpiece of realistic fiction in 19th century French literature.
A. Madame Bovary amasses huge debts ad finally, in a state of complete demoralization, poisons herself.
B. The novel, the desperate attempts of Eunna Bovary to escape from the boredom and drabness of provincial life.
C. When the novel was published, Flaubert was charged with immorality by the courts.
D. Unhappy in her marriage, she encountered only mediocrity in the lover she originally believed could save her.
6. But it is the unflattering portrayal of bourgeois society that aroused them, not any act of immorality in the novel.
1. Gustave Flaubert's 'Madamame Bovary' (1857) is the acclaimed masterpiece of realistic fiction in 19th century French literature.
A. Madame Bovary amasses huge debts ad finally, in a state of complete demoralization, poisons herself.
B. The novel, the desperate attempts of Eunna Bovary to escape from the boredom and drabness of provincial life.
C. When the novel was published, Flaubert was charged with immorality by the courts.
D. Unhappy in her marriage, she encountered only mediocrity in the lover she originally believed could save her.
6. But it is the unflattering portrayal of bourgeois society that aroused them, not any act of immorality in the novel.
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