Madame Bovary

Sakeena Farhath
Period 3
3/27/03

MADAME BOVARY
Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is often considered as the first realistic novel. As the reader follows the catastrophic search of a woman for love out of dissatisfaction in her marriage, it becomes apparent why.
Flaubert’s work of realistic contains many characters. The main one is Emma Bovary, better known as Madame Bovary from the title. Emma is a country girl educated in a covenant who marries Charles Bovary at a young age. She harbors idealistic romantic illusions, covets sophistication, sensuality, and passion. She appears to immerse into fits of boredom and depression when her life falls to match that of the ones she idolizes through novels. Emma’s desire for passion and her reflection of marriage lead her into one affair after another. Her husband, Charles Bovary, is a simple, kind, yet a dull country doctor. His lack of skill at his profession leads him to amount into nothing more than a mediocre doctor ...