In this final paper, an attempt will be made to present the period of literary realism as the beginning of feminism, using the examples of female literary characters. The most famous femme fatales of European and Croatian literature are - Emma Bovary from the novel Mrs. Bovary by G. Flaubert, Anna Karenina from the novel by L. N. Tolstoy and Laura G. by A. Kovačić U registraturi. These representatives of female literary characters from French, Russian and Croatian realism, according to the typology of academician Krešimir Nemec, are divided in: angel in the house, femme fragile and femme fatale. Mrs. Bovary is a representative of French literary realism and we characterize her as a transition from an angel in the house to a femme fatale. Anna Karenina is a representative of Russian literary realism, characterized as the most fatal woman in world literary history. Kovačić's Laura G. is a victim of her fatal fate, which turns her into a charlatan and a murderer, perhaps she is the most fatal woman in the history of Croatian literature. Fatal women are described as demonic beauties who oppose the traditional patriarchal way of life, endanger their own integrity for the sake of true happiness, reach their goals with their intelligence and insight, are not ashamed of their sexuality and eroticism, but carry the burden of a fate that they cannot handle alone. As a rule, they end fatally because they end their lives with an eruption of emotions containing hatred, gluttony, greed and madness. They are the opposite of femme fragile,this is the type of woman characterized by monotony, static and timidity, their influence on the course of the plot is insignificant. On the other hand, the female characters designated as femme fatale are the initiators of the action, the bearers of the plot and the creators of the outcome.