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This 4 page paper discusses the novel “Madame Bovary” and two of the film adaptations of the story. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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but possibly not as good, at least according to some of the critics. This paper examines the book and two of its film adaptations, and argues that neither gets to
the heart of Emma Bovary. She is not a wild seductress but a child lost in dreams of romance, and as such, her behavior is understandable as that of a
princess who believes in fairy tales and cannot believe that life isnt turning out the same way as the books she reads. Discussion Emma Bovary does not live in the
real world, so its unfair to paint her as a seductress or wicked adventuress. Readers learn of her impractically romantic nature early in the book, when Flaubert says she would
have "preferred to have a midnight wedding with torches" to a traditional ceremony. No doubt such a proceeding would have shocked her father and her fianc?, but it would have
alerted them that she had a head full of fantasies. This is made very clear, since Flaubert devotes a full chapter of his novel to Emmas love of romantic novels.
By examining her reading so extensively, Flaubert is signaling his readers that this is some of great importance. In fact, its the keynote of her character. Just after she marries
Charles, Flaubert tells us that before they had married she thought she was in love, but since she didnt feel the happiness that "should have followed this love," she thought
she was mistaken (Flaubert). And so Emma "tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the worlds felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful
in books" (Flaubert). In books, that is where she has gotten her ideas about life, love, romance and what it means to be married. However, her reading is not
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