Madame Bovary Analysis - 1228 Words

Gustave Flaubert brings Emma’s life to a powerful close in one climactic scene of Emma’s suicide. Throughout the novel â€Å"†Madame Bovary†, Flaubert foreshadows Emma’s eventual downfall and death. Emma killed herself because she could not pay her debts. She was indebted because of her desire to be part of the upper class and her extramarital love affairs. And she had love affairs because of the discrepancy between the life she dreamt of, out of the the romances she had read as a schoolgirl in the convent. Her suicide happened to be the last consequence of this chain of events. Flaubert foreshadows each event leading to another which eventually leads to Emma’s downfall and death. Gustave portrays Emma’s character from the beginning†¦show more content†¦These novels were filled with â€Å"love affairs, lovers, mistresses, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely country houses, postriders killed at every relay...palpitating hearts, vows and kisses† (Faubert, pg. 36). These novels do not portray love realistically. Emma fails to distinguish fantasy and reality. Flaubert shows that this failure to distinguish between the two was Emma’s â€Å"tragic flaw†. Emma had read about these ideas in books, but instead of viewing these concepts as fantasy, she viewed them as reality, and later in life, acted as if that was the normal thing to do. Anything different, anything that deviated from her current life appealed to Emma. What was new was romantic, exciting, bold, and adventurous. When Charles does not meet her expectation she gets mad but in reality it is not Charles’ fault but Emma’s for having such high expectatio ns for others. Emma has high expectations for Charles and her other lovers. She expects more from Charles then he can give. Charles will never be able to live up to Emma’s high expectations of the dashing charming intellectual characteristics the men possesses in her novels. 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