This difference between her pleasant dreams and everyday reality eventually make her ill.

She always dreams of something much bigger, something much better. The Bovarys live in the village where Charles Bovary has his practice, and Emma finds the village life dull and unsatisfactory. He meets Emma while he is treating his father, and manages to woo her enough to marry her. She gets married to Charles Bovary, a doctor, who is mediocre and far from exiting. However, when marriage becomes her reality, she finds it very different from what she imagined it to be. PlotĮmma Bovary is a woman romantic nature, who ever s ince she was young, she believed that love and marriage would be the climax of her life. Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist living and working at the beginning of the 19 th century. I recommend it to all lovers of classics and psychologically colored stories. This one is one of the exceptions that hook you from the very beginning and take you on a painful but pleasant voyage in the deep waters of Emma Bovary’s world, filled with lust, broken dreams and wrong choices. Many classics are significant for different reasons, but not all of them have an appealing story that can captivate modern-day readers with their short attention spans. “Madame Bovary” is indeed a great story, no doubt in that. There is a reason I started this summary the way I did.

Who Should Read “Madame Bovary”? And Why? A story that, even when time passes, keeps its significance and appeal.

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