All 3 Uses of
stoic
in
Madame Bovary
- After that she was silent, burying her anger in a dumb stoicism that she maintained till her death.
Chpt 1.1 *stoicism = a school of philosophy whose adherents try not to be affected by pleasure, pain, or emotions
- Or did she wish by a sort of voluptuous stoicism to feel the more profoundly the bitterness of the things she was about to leave?†
Chpt 2.12
- Chapter Seven She was stoical the next day when Maitre Hareng, the bailiff, with two assistants, presented himself at her house to draw up the inventory for the distraint.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
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(stoic) seeming unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions