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Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert
It is amazing how a few years can change one's opinion of a person.
This was how I saw Madame Emma Bovary when I was 13 years old. "Normally I don't hate main characters in books I read but there is a first time for certain things to happen. I hated Madame Bovary with a passion in my soul! She is a selfish, mean, vain, and stupid person that I think I have read in all of my French Literature books. If this book wasn't part of school reading then I probably would not have bothered to finish it. I have no idea how Mr. Flaubert thought this woman up? He must have run into some pretty vile women in his life. It is okay for a woman to be able have desires for herself and to better her circumstances, but Madame Bovary does it in all the wrong ways. She is a poison that her husband and daughter beg for love and try to take care of her so she'll be happy but she cares nothing for them. I feel so badly for them.
Need proof of her being a poison?
-She immediately decides after her wedding night that she doesn't love Charles.
-She then sets about creating her own misery by obsessing and romanticizing this unhappiness until it consumes her.
-She goes from a productive and proficient housewife to a morose, unrelenting mess.
-She quickly begins despising Charles and blaming him for everything while he dotes on her and grows increasingly content.
-Her home quickly falls into a state of shabbiness.
-Her daughter goes neglected.
-Her first romance uses her unforgivably but is eventually driven away by her incessant neediness and demands.
-Her second romance, whilst more earnest in his affections, is also driven away by her incessant neediness, deteriorating mental health and demands.
-She drives her husband into bankruptcy.
-Commits suicide to escape it all.
-Her husband falls into despair, neglects their child and quickly dies.
-The child ends up working in a cotton factory.
Mr. Flaubert does is that he did a nice job describing the landscape throughout the book. I could imagine all the towns very easily, but that is the only positive I have about this book."
Now that I am older by I feel that I am able to understand Emma better. I understand now that people always want what they do not have and are unsatisfied with their progress in life even if it is good. Emma should be thankful to have a husband who truly loves her, a daughter who adores her, and people who consider her a lucky woman to have a husband who is well liked in their area. Still she isn't happy and deals with her sorrow and mistakes by running away unable to deal with them. That being said I cannot really claim to like this book still, but I no longer hate Emma. The book is still quite boring but thankfully audiobooks are much more popular and I was able to find a copy from my library. Lydia Davis greatly helped in me liking the audiobook as much as I did. Her voice is so soothing yet brings the story to life better than my imagination alone did. I'll be looking for more audiobooks that she narrates.
This was how I saw Madame Emma Bovary when I was 13 years old. "Normally I don't hate main characters in books I read but there is a first time for certain things to happen. I hated Madame Bovary with a passion in my soul! She is a selfish, mean, vain, and stupid person that I think I have read in all of my French Literature books. If this book wasn't part of school reading then I probably would not have bothered to finish it. I have no idea how Mr. Flaubert thought this woman up? He must have run into some pretty vile women in his life. It is okay for a woman to be able have desires for herself and to better her circumstances, but Madame Bovary does it in all the wrong ways. She is a poison that her husband and daughter beg for love and try to take care of her so she'll be happy but she cares nothing for them. I feel so badly for them.
Need proof of her being a poison?
-She immediately decides after her wedding night that she doesn't love Charles.
-She then sets about creating her own misery by obsessing and romanticizing this unhappiness until it consumes her.
-She goes from a productive and proficient housewife to a morose, unrelenting mess.
-She quickly begins despising Charles and blaming him for everything while he dotes on her and grows increasingly content.
-Her home quickly falls into a state of shabbiness.
-Her daughter goes neglected.
-Her first romance uses her unforgivably but is eventually driven away by her incessant neediness and demands.
-Her second romance, whilst more earnest in his affections, is also driven away by her incessant neediness, deteriorating mental health and demands.
-She drives her husband into bankruptcy.
-Commits suicide to escape it all.
-Her husband falls into despair, neglects their child and quickly dies.
-The child ends up working in a cotton factory.
Mr. Flaubert does is that he did a nice job describing the landscape throughout the book. I could imagine all the towns very easily, but that is the only positive I have about this book."
Now that I am older by I feel that I am able to understand Emma better. I understand now that people always want what they do not have and are unsatisfied with their progress in life even if it is good. Emma should be thankful to have a husband who truly loves her, a daughter who adores her, and people who consider her a lucky woman to have a husband who is well liked in their area. Still she isn't happy and deals with her sorrow and mistakes by running away unable to deal with them. That being said I cannot really claim to like this book still, but I no longer hate Emma. The book is still quite boring but thankfully audiobooks are much more popular and I was able to find a copy from my library. Lydia Davis greatly helped in me liking the audiobook as much as I did. Her voice is so soothing yet brings the story to life better than my imagination alone did. I'll be looking for more audiobooks that she narrates.