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A review by senali
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
5.0
Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce a lady who ruined her life just because she had high standards upon men and romance as a consequence of reading a lot of fictional love stories. Madame Bovary aka Emma Bovary is married to an ordinary doctor who is a normal man in sense. But Emma , being blinded by her higher standards, is never satisfied with her life as a wife of a doctor. She wanted to move to a more modernized town , fancy things to decorate herself with , and even a lover or two. In brief , Emma desired a fanciful , too-sweet-to-be-real kind of a romantic life and that desire itself drove her towards agony.
I was convinced to read this novel after studying the first chapter for french literature in class. I wish I could read the original french novel but I could only find the English version and I don't regret it at all. The themes and the insights given by the author are similar to that of Thomas Hardy. Written in an era where the opinions of the people were typical , the book had stood out as a controversial thing. The author , through the third person omnipresent unbiased narration never points out that Emma was wrong nor right. All he did was , employing his words in a witty way that the readers could brood over the acts of immorality and their justifications by themselves.
In the book , we neither find a lovable character nor a character to loathe. I would say , Madame Bovary is one of the best classics I've read and will be rereading some day.
I was convinced to read this novel after studying the first chapter for french literature in class. I wish I could read the original french novel but I could only find the English version and I don't regret it at all. The themes and the insights given by the author are similar to that of Thomas Hardy. Written in an era where the opinions of the people were typical , the book had stood out as a controversial thing. The author , through the third person omnipresent unbiased narration never points out that Emma was wrong nor right. All he did was , employing his words in a witty way that the readers could brood over the acts of immorality and their justifications by themselves.
In the book , we neither find a lovable character nor a character to loathe. I would say , Madame Bovary is one of the best classics I've read and will be rereading some day.