Summary Of Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert started with a story about Charles Bovary. Nonetheless when we first met Emma Bovary, there is no doubt in my mind that she is the central character in this story. Emma Bovary was a woman who craves wealth, happiness, passion and beauty and is will to do anything it takes to acquire all that she needs. She is very intelligent but was never granted the opportunity to get as mature as she needs. Being an adult, she allows her imaginations to run wild instead of sitting down and evaluate the things thoroughly. As the famous quote states “never judge a book by its cover”, Emma is a person who views things as being perfect or otherwise by the way it looks on the outside and never took the time to see what is underneath those beautiful outer coats. The people who always appear to be misleading, those are the people she gravitates to more but loathes the very few people who are actually exactly as they appear. Being that she is a country girl she isn’t expose to certain lifestyles, so having the opportunity to experience a higher society lifestyle, she would prefer to believe that for the aristocracy, life is definitely an filled with excitement and she is willing to live it to the fullest. She has a several flaws that are motivated by her desires and hunger to escalate socially and they are results of the situations she is currently in. The passion that she showcase somewhat dominate her childhood and ultimately her life. This story was created in a way that Madame Bovary would have to stand up and responsibility for her own deceitful act. The affairs that she have been engaged in has occurred because she wanted but never knew when they failed that she would be left lonely and hopeless. She was not onl...

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...n wanting a boy even more. She prayed that the baby she is going to give life to will be a boy and that she would name him George. She also stated that having a baby boy “was like an expected revenge for all her impotence in the past”. (Flaubert Part II Page 357) Soon after giving birth, Emma heard the news that unfortunately the baby was a girl she “turned her head away and fainted”. (Page 358) She felt a sense of disappointment and let down by the world, as all her dreams have disperse. Being that she didn’t got the chance to develop her mind as she was growing, she isn’t aware of how to treat a child so she neglect her child because it is not the gender in which she wanted. However, if she had not have this child, it would be better for Charles because he would not have to be suffering the grievance she have due to the fact that she did not get what she wanted.

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