Introduction
Studying love in Madame Bovary already tried to understand the novel as this work is fundamentally a book about love, love Emma. What is love for the heroine Emma? What is happiness? What is marriage? Desire, pleasure, eroticism? All themes that have earned the condemnation Book by censors of morals. How then capture the spirit of Emma in such a study? How to judge? To answer these questions we will turn the romance of Emma, the expression of love in marriage and the relationship between love and happiness.
I. Romantic love Emma
1 - love, a cure for boredom
Emma bored from beginning to the end of the novel, she is bored. Girl living alone with her father in a remote village in the depths of France, she is bored and daydreaming in his schooling in a Parisian convent and love described in the novels she reads, including Paul and Virginia. She was waiting for Prince Charming.
She met Charles Bovary, a doctor from the region come care for his father and agrees to marry him, believing to have finally meet this great love that she never stops thinking.
2 - The satisfaction of a love
Madame Bovary has found the love she sought, but each time he spun between the fingers.
Basically the only true love she has had, or at least it would be, is in his reading. So the narrator can say: "She was in love with all novels, the heroine of all the drama, the vagueness of it all volumes of verse. .
His love for his daughter Bertha was very doubtful, so she reserved her heart to the prince of his readings, as saying of his dreams, his imagination: "As his affections vanished, he clung more closely to the love of her child. "
II. Love in marriage
1 - Conjugal love
Charles meanwhile had this love that has sucked hell. Indeed, after graduating, he moved to Tostes and married a widow of forty-five years, rich, but ugly and authoritarian, Ms. Dubuc. She has an inordinate passion for Charles and constantly monitors. Her married life becomes a nightmare until the death of the latter, due to its ruin caused by a notary.
regards Emma as she has not found the love she hoped the marriage. She also fell in the loneliness and boredom.
In this book, it seems that love is impossible, which justifies Homais decide separately talking to his wife: - love ... marriage! he said, slowly separating the two words. Ah! very good! very good! very nice! And illustrations! ... Ah! is too much! "
2 - disillusionment in love
But the disillusionment comes quickly and Emma finds himself trapped in a marriage with a man and a poor dull life far from the pomp of Paris to which she aspired. Here begins the descent into hell of Emma Bovary, who compromise with multiple links and a spending binge. Until the fatal outcome that we all know.
Disappointment in love is that of someone looking for a love that has been described in books and suffers not to find.
III. Love and Happiness
1 - eroticism
What is love? and happiness? The search for happiness in love with Emma merges with the desire remains a desire, that is to say never completely satisfied. She can only live eroticism with men who think she found the prince of her dreams.
The first meeting between Charles and Emma, when they both seek the whip at the doctor has forgotten the old Rouault was a scene charged with eroticism.
to be desired, Emma knew to be persuasive making use of eroticism as a prostitute who sells man "Emma continued with gestures cute head, more affectionate than a cat lover."
2 - adultery
Emma believes adultery achieved by the fictional world that his reading put him in mind: she "found [s] in [it] the platitudes of marriage" but it did 'continuously to no less "writing love letters, under the idea that a woman must write to her lover" (III, 6). Emma also felt no compunction to live in adultery and "She repeated, "I have a lover! a lover! "Delighting at the idea as if a second puberty had come to her. "
victim of his reading, therefore it accepts adultery:" Then she recalled the heroines of books she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with the voice of sisters the charmed "
Boredom is still the daily lot of Emma. The couple then moved Yonville largest town where they will be among the notables, among the ambitious pharmacist Homais the Cure Bournisien, the lawyer and his young clerk, Leon Dupuis. The birth of a daughter Bertha does not give him more happiness and Emma hoped lulled by the looks of the young lovers Leo. Only after the start of it that she finally knows the passion as expected. A rich landowner in the area, Rodolphe Boulanger, made her his mistress and Emma throws herself passionately and unthinkingly in love adultery. Emma even happens to despise her husband and seeking a way to bury her lover Rodolphe. This romantic project please do not frighten or one who abandons it. And he writes: " I will be away when you read these sad lines, because I wanted to flee as quickly as possible to avoid the temptation to see you again. "Desperate, and accused of cowardice and it takes a little life thanks to Leo, found by chance in Rouen. This pushes the second link to contract debt on debt with a merchant falsely generous Lheureux. Thereof, to recover his money, threatening to seize his personal property but Emma commits suicide before such revocation. Unable to cope with this situation, Charles died of grief, not without forgiving his wife.
Conclusion
This realistic novel is full of romance and romantic. Everything is concentrated in the typical character of Emma. This quest she undertook in love, as we have seen is impossible, because it led to heroin death. Is this a warning by Flaubert or a charge against the men? We have the arguments to believe even more that the cowardice of men is often questioned. Charles is too flat, down to earth, Rodolphe that scrolls at the last moment to drop Emma Le Clerc who ruin the characters are all unworthy of the love that they bring this passionate woman.
Studying love in Madame Bovary already tried to understand the novel as this work is fundamentally a book about love, love Emma. What is love for the heroine Emma? What is happiness? What is marriage? Desire, pleasure, eroticism? All themes that have earned the condemnation Book by censors of morals. How then capture the spirit of Emma in such a study? How to judge? To answer these questions we will turn the romance of Emma, the expression of love in marriage and the relationship between love and happiness.
I. Romantic love Emma
1 - love, a cure for boredom
Emma bored from beginning to the end of the novel, she is bored. Girl living alone with her father in a remote village in the depths of France, she is bored and daydreaming in his schooling in a Parisian convent and love described in the novels she reads, including Paul and Virginia. She was waiting for Prince Charming.
She met Charles Bovary, a doctor from the region come care for his father and agrees to marry him, believing to have finally meet this great love that she never stops thinking.
2 - The satisfaction of a love
Madame Bovary has found the love she sought, but each time he spun between the fingers.
Basically the only true love she has had, or at least it would be, is in his reading. So the narrator can say: "She was in love with all novels, the heroine of all the drama, the vagueness of it all volumes of verse. .
His love for his daughter Bertha was very doubtful, so she reserved her heart to the prince of his readings, as saying of his dreams, his imagination: "As his affections vanished, he clung more closely to the love of her child. "
II. Love in marriage
1 - Conjugal love
Charles meanwhile had this love that has sucked hell. Indeed, after graduating, he moved to Tostes and married a widow of forty-five years, rich, but ugly and authoritarian, Ms. Dubuc. She has an inordinate passion for Charles and constantly monitors. Her married life becomes a nightmare until the death of the latter, due to its ruin caused by a notary.
regards Emma as she has not found the love she hoped the marriage. She also fell in the loneliness and boredom.
In this book, it seems that love is impossible, which justifies Homais decide separately talking to his wife: - love ... marriage! he said, slowly separating the two words. Ah! very good! very good! very nice! And illustrations! ... Ah! is too much! "
2 - disillusionment in love
But the disillusionment comes quickly and Emma finds himself trapped in a marriage with a man and a poor dull life far from the pomp of Paris to which she aspired. Here begins the descent into hell of Emma Bovary, who compromise with multiple links and a spending binge. Until the fatal outcome that we all know.
Disappointment in love is that of someone looking for a love that has been described in books and suffers not to find.
III. Love and Happiness
1 - eroticism
What is love? and happiness? The search for happiness in love with Emma merges with the desire remains a desire, that is to say never completely satisfied. She can only live eroticism with men who think she found the prince of her dreams.
The first meeting between Charles and Emma, when they both seek the whip at the doctor has forgotten the old Rouault was a scene charged with eroticism.
to be desired, Emma knew to be persuasive making use of eroticism as a prostitute who sells man "Emma continued with gestures cute head, more affectionate than a cat lover."
2 - adultery
Emma believes adultery achieved by the fictional world that his reading put him in mind: she "found [s] in [it] the platitudes of marriage" but it did 'continuously to no less "writing love letters, under the idea that a woman must write to her lover" (III, 6). Emma also felt no compunction to live in adultery and "She repeated, "I have a lover! a lover! "Delighting at the idea as if a second puberty had come to her. "
victim of his reading, therefore it accepts adultery:" Then she recalled the heroines of books she had read, and the lyrical legion of those adulterous women began to sing in her memory with the voice of sisters the charmed "
Boredom is still the daily lot of Emma. The couple then moved Yonville largest town where they will be among the notables, among the ambitious pharmacist Homais the Cure Bournisien, the lawyer and his young clerk, Leon Dupuis. The birth of a daughter Bertha does not give him more happiness and Emma hoped lulled by the looks of the young lovers Leo. Only after the start of it that she finally knows the passion as expected. A rich landowner in the area, Rodolphe Boulanger, made her his mistress and Emma throws herself passionately and unthinkingly in love adultery. Emma even happens to despise her husband and seeking a way to bury her lover Rodolphe. This romantic project please do not frighten or one who abandons it. And he writes: " I will be away when you read these sad lines, because I wanted to flee as quickly as possible to avoid the temptation to see you again. "Desperate, and accused of cowardice and it takes a little life thanks to Leo, found by chance in Rouen. This pushes the second link to contract debt on debt with a merchant falsely generous Lheureux. Thereof, to recover his money, threatening to seize his personal property but Emma commits suicide before such revocation. Unable to cope with this situation, Charles died of grief, not without forgiving his wife.
Conclusion
This realistic novel is full of romance and romantic. Everything is concentrated in the typical character of Emma. This quest she undertook in love, as we have seen is impossible, because it led to heroin death. Is this a warning by Flaubert or a charge against the men? We have the arguments to believe even more that the cowardice of men is often questioned. Charles is too flat, down to earth, Rodolphe that scrolls at the last moment to drop Emma Le Clerc who ruin the characters are all unworthy of the love that they bring this passionate woman.
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