Felicite is so under appreciate,earning 100 francs a year, Felicite saved Madame, her children and herself from first oxen’s and then a bull. “‘Don't be afraid,’ cried Felicite; and murmuring a sort of lament she passed her hand over the back of the nearest ox; he turned away and the others followed”, a simple action, the best is yet to come when she confronts a bull. Surly saving Madame, and the children life in a heroic way, ending with: “The bull had driven Felicite up against a fence; the foam from his muzzle flew in her face and in another minute he would have disembowelled her. She had just time to slip between two bars and the huge animal, thwarted, paused.” Incredibly after this heroic act, Felicite didn’t take credit for her actions “and probably never knew that she had been heroic”. This bothered me increasingly because after an act like that she should see how she really is a powerful hearted young women, but her not noticing this, done by Flaubert on purpose shows how brain washed people were by their social standing.