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A review by afroditi86
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
2.0
I gave this book 2 stars not because it was badly written or uninteresting. In fact, I was impressed by Flaubert's story telling and the way he made his characters seem so real. However I could not stand Emma. I hated her with a deep rooted passion. She annoyed me so much I actually found it hard getting motivated to finish the book and now that I have I don't think I actually enjoyed it at all.
Emma did not have one good quality about her. She was a bad wife, a horrible mother, she didn't have any talents and if she did she did not care to cultivate them. She ruined her family financially and when time came for her to own up to all the mistakes she made, she took the easy way out.
She depended too much on men and thought that her only salvation from her dreadful life would be the love of a prince in shiny armour. Which I think is impossible since no one could ever love Emma as much as she loved herself.
I understand that maybe in days past Emma's story might have worked as a cautionary tale for young girls, but I just found it unbearable.
Emma did not have one good quality about her. She was a bad wife, a horrible mother, she didn't have any talents and if she did she did not care to cultivate them. She ruined her family financially and when time came for her to own up to all the mistakes she made, she took the easy way out.
She depended too much on men and thought that her only salvation from her dreadful life would be the love of a prince in shiny armour. Which I think is impossible since no one could ever love Emma as much as she loved herself.
I understand that maybe in days past Emma's story might have worked as a cautionary tale for young girls, but I just found it unbearable.