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glosangela 's review for:
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
There is not a single likeable character in this novel that is both a tragedy and a farce. Madame Bovary is weak, dishonest, selfish and blind to reality. She lacks moral fibre, she is unworthy - but so is everyone else - and I think that's the point.
*slight spoilers*
Emma is foolish, self-centred, and dissatisfied with everything. Her husband Charles means well, I suppose, but he's very ineffectual and so blind and so clueless! Homais is dishonest and amoral - ridiculous, ambitious and just incredibly self-satisfied. Emma's father is hopeless; Charles' mother is interfering and tactless. Lheureux is an unscrupulous cutthroat. Rodolphe sets about Emma's seduction, repudiation and destruction without a backward glance; Leon - much the same! The wet nurse is a grasping and avaricious (I personally wouldn't trust her with a puppy). Even the sweet, reliable housemaid Félicité turns out to be a thief...
Yet somehow, you can't tear yourself away from the car-crash that is Emma's life, watching her slow, willing, heedless descent into ruin, waiting for the turnaround that never comes.
*slight spoilers*
Emma is foolish, self-centred, and dissatisfied with everything. Her husband Charles means well, I suppose, but he's very ineffectual and so blind and so clueless! Homais is dishonest and amoral - ridiculous, ambitious and just incredibly self-satisfied. Emma's father is hopeless; Charles' mother is interfering and tactless. Lheureux is an unscrupulous cutthroat. Rodolphe sets about Emma's seduction, repudiation and destruction without a backward glance; Leon - much the same! The wet nurse is a grasping and avaricious (I personally wouldn't trust her with a puppy). Even the sweet, reliable housemaid Félicité turns out to be a thief...
Yet somehow, you can't tear yourself away from the car-crash that is Emma's life, watching her slow, willing, heedless descent into ruin, waiting for the turnaround that never comes.