The Influence Of Reading On Anna Karenina And Madame Bovary
Reading provides an escape for people from the ordinariness of everyday
life. Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, dissatisfied with their lives pursued
their dreams of ecstasy and love through reading. At the beginning of both
novels Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary made active decisions about their future
although these decisions were not always rational. As their lives started to
disintegrate Emma and Anna sought to live out their dreams and fantasies through
reading. Reading served as morphine allowing them to escape the pain of everyday
life, but reading like morphine closed them off from the rest of the world
preventing them from making rational decisions. It was Anna and Emma's loss ...
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a product of the
debilitating adventures her mind takes. These adventures are feed by the novels
that she reads.
They were filled with love affairs, lovers, mistresses, persecuted
ladies fainting in lonely country houses, postriders killed at every relay,
horses ridden to death on every page, dark forests, palpitating hearts, vows,
sobs, tears and kisses, skiffs in the moonlight, nightingales in thickets, and
gentlemen brave as lions gentle as lambs, virtuous as none really is, and always
ready to shed floods of tears.(Flaubert 31.)Footnote1
Emma's already impaired reasoning and disappointing marriage to Charles
caused Emma to withdraw into reading books, she fashioning herself a life based
not in reality but in fantasy.
Anna Karenina at the begging of Tolstoy's novel was a bright and
energetic women. When Tolstoy first introduces us to Anna she appears as the
paragon of virtue, a women in charge of her own destiny.
He felt that he had to have ...
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an affair with Vronsky. Like Emma her decisions
were driven by impulsiveness and when the consequences caught up with her latter
in the novel she secluded herself from her friends, Vronsky, and even her
children. Anna and Emma both had character flaws that made them view the world
as fantasy so that when their fantasy crumbled they resorted to creating a new
fantasy by living their lives through the books they read.
Books allowed Emma Bovary to withdraw from her deteriorating life. They
allowed her to pursue her dreams of love, affairs, and knights; from the
wreckage of her marriage with Charles. Emma's, experience at La Vaubyessard
became a source of absurd fantasy for Emma, and ...
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