Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert www.literatureguide.in
Introduction • Book Title: Madame Bovary • Written by: Gustave Flaubert • Genre: Realist Novel • Date of publication: 1856 • Country: France
• Madame Bovary’s story open with the boy “Charles Bovary” who is dull and unconfident. Belongs to a middle-class family, after a huge struggle, he just succeeds to be a doctor of the countryside. • On the suggestion of his mother, he married to a widower who was much older than him. But soon died. After the death of his wife, attract toward Emma and married her. She was the daughter of one of his patient. • But Emma and Charles have no match. She was the girl who fantasizes, always dreams and was very romantic but another side Charles was dull, simple and very realistic. It causes that Emma unable to satisfy her dreams and ideas, so because of her dissatisfaction, she becomes ill and depressed.
• On her pregnancy, Charles decide to shift the place for the sake of her happiness and at the new town she gave birth a beautiful girl but she was still sad. • In this town, she attracts toward a young clerk named “Leon” but soon realized that she is married so ignore her feeling. It causes that Leon decides to leave for further study. As a result, she started to neglect all her duties as a wife and a mother. For her, Bovary and his love for her have no importance.
• Sometime after she move to a passionate affair with her rich neighbour “Rodolphe” but very he bored and abandon her. Due to this, she became seriously ill.
• Charles struggles to recover her but she still not care for him or respect his love. During an opera program, she meet Leon and began an affair with him. • At this stage, she becomes totally passionate toward his ideas and thoughts. She started to spend her husband’s money freely and also brow money to afford daily city trips. Day by day she was sinking into the deep debts. • Her husband “Bovary” have no idea that what his wife was doing. He was blindly believing her due to his stupid innocence.
• Meanwhile, the money lender starts demanding to return to his debts. The afraid, Emma beg help to Leon, Rodolphe, and other business owners of the town but any of them didn’t help her so she poisoned herself and died. • When Charles Bovary struck to the truth of his wife. He too died lonely in his garden.
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