Such works as Gustav Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina focus on women whose desires place them on the wrong side of social mores and ultimately lead to their downfalls. While Lessing uses Mary Turner's failed marriage with Dick and illicit relationship with Moses as an allegory for the repressed contradictions of Southern Rhodesian society, Mary also represents the specific plight of being a woman who is unable to escape from her social conditions-a theme that has a distinct place of prominence in the history of the modern novel.
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