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A 4 page essay that discusses the characterization of Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. This novel recounts the life and death a beautiful young woman who is frustrated in her unrealistic search for romantic love. Flaubert portrays Emma Bovary as lacking in all the qualities that would have qualified her a true Romantic. She is concerned with appearances rather than inner values; sensual rather than spiritual; emotional but not with the accompany tempering quality of being warm-hearted. In the hands of a less-skilled writer, Emma might have come across as merely supercilious and shallow; however, Flaubert's treatment of her is much more sympathetic as the reader sees her against the backdrop of her era, which suggests that rather putting all the blame directly on Emma for her shortcomings, she is the logical outcome of her culture. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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lacking in all the qualities that would have qualified her a true Romantic. She is concerned with appearances rather than inner values; sensual rather than spiritual; emotional but not with
the accompany tempering quality of being warm-hearted. In the hands of a less-skilled writer, Emma might have come across as merely supercilious and shallow; however, Flauberts treatment of her is
much more sympathetic as the reader sees her against the backdrop of her era, which suggests that rather putting all the blame directly on Emma for her shortcomings, she
is the logical outcome of her culture. Early on in the novel, Flaubert shows the effect of Emmas overly romanticized ideas about marriage, as she tries to convince herself
during her "honeymoon" period that "this was the happiest time of her life" (28). Flaubert writes that "To taste the full sweetness of it, it would no doubt have been
necessary to fly to those lands with sonorous names where days after marriage are full of the most suave laziness" (28). As this daydream suggests, Emma has the idea that
happiness is connected intrinsically to some circumstance that fits her romantic expectations. Happiness, in Emmas estimation, cannot be found within the ordinary confines of everyday life. It is also interesting
to note that Charles, Emmas husband, is little more than window-dressing, in her elaborate fantasies, a sort of necessary accessory to the romanticism of an exotic landscape, but not really
a person in his own right. When Emma does consider Charles, she finds him wanting. His conversation is "commonplace as a street pavement" (29). Furthermore, Emma soon realizes that
her husband does not fit her conception of a romantic lover, as he does not swim, fence, shoot and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her
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