Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert | Summary & Analysis

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Professor Bill Yarrow of Joliet Junior College provides an in-depth analysis of the plot, characters, symbols, themes, and motifs of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary.
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A biting critique of bourgeoisie (or middle-class) values, Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary relates the tragic life of striver Emma Bovary and her husband Charles.
Bored of her mundane existence as a doctor's wife in a small town, Emma turns to indulgent spending and romantic dalliances to find passion and true love, as well as to distract herself.
Emma’s love affairs in the short-term bring passion, but ultimately end in disappointment and Emma finds herself worse off than she was before. In her loneliness she also develops a desire for wealth and grandeur.
Aiming to join the upper classes, with little means of actually doing so, she ultimately succumbs to the consequences of her indulgence when her debts begin to catch up with her.
Her ultimate decision to take her life forces Charles to discover her debt and infidelities and leaves him and their daughter in poverty.
Through heightened descriptions of middle-class life and its discontents, Flaubert indicts the superficial new values system that emerged in the wake of the French Revolution.
French author Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary was first published in 1856. Flaubert was greatly interested in writing about the bourgeoisie, or middle class. He was known for his style of literary realism-which attempted to depict life as it really was, as in his most popular work, Madame Bovary.
The tragedy Madame Bovary contains many strong themes, including desire and dissatisfaction, as Emma craves romance but quickly tires of it; freedom and confinement, as society dictates that Emma stay in an unhappy marriage; and power and helplessness, as Emma follows a path toward ruin in her quest to find independence. Other important motifs include windows and death.
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Thank you for this video. I watched a Madame Bovary movie, which was quite dreadful, and I was interested in learning more about what the book itself was about. I have never read it. The movie left me thinking how wretched Madame Bovary was. I still find her a wretched, self-centered character, but at least I now understand what made her that way.

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Its true that what we consume (books, movies) truly make us if we do not filter the ideas. Emma was given high expectations because of the garbage romance novels, similar to garbage Netflix romances

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[@hannab5544]

I'd argue that it wasn't 'Emma's inability to face reality' but reality itself which, in a time when women were not allowed to go make experiences, have their own life, career etc, was gloomy and restrictive that ultimately led her to commit suicide.

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But she also based this reality on unrealistic fiction which doesn't resemble real life, which explains her frustration. I haven't read the book yet but from the summary, it seems like she was not criticized for having affairs, which implies that she wasn't restricted in terms of her romantic life- she just moved on from one man to the next because it was only based on fleeting first impressions and not really true love. Not to say her first husband loved her unconditionally but she grew dissatisfied because it was nothing like in the books

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That would make sense, if it didn't happen all of the time now when women are free to do as they please.
Based on divorce statistics I would say that it is more likely that it is human nature itself that is the cause.
People get bored and are dillusional enough to think that the grass is greener on the other side, which after getting divorced they quickly find out how foolish they were and that they are now unhappier than ever.

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That means, she was all captured by her mind urg and actions ruled by emotions of her to live in this body and same brought her to give up from this body..

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She's a Brenda.

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