Madama Bovary & Anna Karenina

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which she falls victim is 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.)
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 ...

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Anna Karenina was a romantic who tried to make her fantasies a
reality. It was for this reason she had 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, ...

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