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The contradiction between middle-class sanctity/order and forbidden desire, later captured in novels like Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.
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bourgeois hypocrisy
The contradiction between middle-class sanctity/order and forbidden desire, later captured in novels like Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.
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The Milkmaid appears wholesome but embeds sexual possibility and cracks in bourgeois life through light, blemished walls, and bodily imagery.
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Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina inherit this Dutch problem: middle-class life demands sanctity and order while oppressing people through taboos and boundaries.
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"All right, another really famous painting by Vermeer, okay? Interesting is, we are here, right? sneaking in, right? We are looking in. We're spying..."
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"...a thousand pages, by the way, It also shows you the hypocrisy of middle class life. How Anna Karenina herself has been oppressed by..."
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"But more importantly, it shows you the hypocrisy within middle class life. Because the entire purpose of prostitutes is so that the husband will..."
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"have just made the wall white, but instead he's showing us the cracks, the blemishes within the wall, which is a metaphor for the..."
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The Dutch Golden Age begins with a poisoned Spanish windfall and ends with Vermeer exposing cracks in the respectable household.
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