Gustave Flaubert And Madame Bovary: Comparisons

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went out, and were
extremely happy. Although, this love and passion for life shortly ended when
Emma's true feelings began to come about. We soon come to realize that “the
story is of a woman whose dreams of romantic love, largely nourished by novels,
find no fulfillment when she is married to a boorish country doctor” (Thorlby
272).
This is completely true because Emma really does get caught up in her
reading. She wonders why she can't have a flawless love as well as a flawless
life, just as the characters do in the novels she reads.
Once Emma becomes fed up and realizes that he is “a sad creature”
(Flaubert 78), she begins her little quest to find the right man through a binge
of affairs and broken hearts.
The author of Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, was born in Rouen France
(Kunitz 280). He grew up in a rather wealthy and prosperous family as a result
of his father being a successful doctor (Kunitz 280). This could easily relate
to the fact that Charles Bovary ...

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Madame Bovary (Thorlby 272).
Although some people, as well as I, believe that Flaubert based the
character of Emma Bovary on himself, he was very unhappy with the subject of the
book upon finishing (Thorlby 272). Maybe Flaubert figured her character to be
too provocative and heartless. Otherwise, he might have simply reflected upon
the theme, and thought it to be uninteresting.
In 1856, the novel Madame Bovary was actually condemned as being
pornographic. This was a result of Flaubert's eminently honest and descriptive
themes. He, along his publisher were charged with offending public morality and
went to trial, but were soon acquitted (Magill 616). This publicity ...

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