The Literary Excerpt below was written by ______ "Still, she continued to write him loving letters, faithful to the idea that a
woman must always write to her lover. But as her pen flew over the paper she was aware of the presence of another man, a phantom embodying her most ardent memories, the most beautiful things she had read and her strongest desires. In the end he became so real and accessible that she tingled with excitement, unable though she was to picture him clearly, so hidden was he, godlike, under his manifold attributes. He dwelt in that enchanted realm where silken ladders swing from balconies moon-bright and flower scented. She felt him near her: he was coming—coming to ravish her entirely in a kiss. And the next moment she would drop back to earth, shattered; for these rapturous love-dreams drained her more than the greatest orgies."
Gustave Flaubert was a French writer born in 1821 and died in 4880. He is considered one of the best Western novelists and is known mainly for his novel Madame Bovary, and for his scrupulous devotion to his art and style, whose best example was his endless search of "le mot juste" (the right word).
The benefit of identifying the axis line in a work of art is that <u>it can identify movement and direction of movement and show whether the object or objects have been organized in a particular direction</u>.
