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Madame Bovary: Destiny - Paper

Madame Bovary: Destiny

Destiny: the seemingly inevitable succession of events.1
Is this definition true, or do we, as people in real life or
characters in novels, control our own destiny? Gustave Flaubert's Madame
Bovary exemplifies how we hold destiny in our own hands, molding it with
the actions we take and the choices we make. Flaubert uses Emma Bovary, the
main character of his novel, to demonstrate this. Throughout her life, Emma
makes many decisions, each one of them affecting her fate and by analyzing
these decisions one could see from the beginning that Emma is destined to
suffer. However, one can also pinpoint such decisions making events as her
marriage, her daughter's birth, her adulterous ...

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regards her as well very educated, sophisticated, sensitive and loving,
with the last characteristic being the one she lacks most. Soon after Emma
marries Charles we see her unhappiness, and we are faced with a dilemma,
why did she marry him? There are numerous possible answers to this, but
the end conclusion is the same: if she had not married him it would have
been better for both of them. Emma would not have been so miserable and
depressed throughout her life and Charles would have found someone who
would return his love and who would appreciate him. Throughout the novel
Emma never expresses her appreciation for her husband. On the contrary, she
often expresses her loathing for him - “Charles never seemed so
disagreeable to her, his fingers never seemed so blunt, his mind so dull
of his manners so crude--.” (p.161)
However, Emma and Charles were married. An uneventful year passed
and Emma reached yet another fork in the road of life - should she have a
baby now, or wait until ...

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Added: 7/23/2005 12:05:05 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Free Paper
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