Everyone has a Madame Bovary in his bones

Timothy 2022-09-25 14:21:27


How is Madame Bovary made?

Emma, ​​an ordinary farm girl, received a good church school education, married a good country doctor and became Mrs. Bovary.

The mission school gave her a preliminary understanding of the life of the nobility. She yearned for art and yearned for a comfortable and high-quality life. So she married a successful country doctor, thinking that she could open a new chapter in her life and lead the artistic, tasteful and comfortable life she yearned for. However, she was disappointed. Her husband is just a country doctor who works hard and leaves early and returns late at night. He has no artistic touch, no romantic atmosphere, and can't give her a luxurious and luxurious life.

So she learned to use loans to satisfy her material yearning; to use affair to fill her romantic spiritual sustenance, and hope that her lover can give herself a life that she yearns for. However, all of this was bankrupt at the moment the loan shark forced the debt, and the lover broke.

At first glance, you might think that Emma is a covetous and promiscuous woman who is hardly worthy of sympathy. However, if you think about so many women in life who fall into the trivialities of life and unconditionally focus on children and husbands, you will think that Emma is just one of these lonely young women. Everyone may have a Bovary in their bones. lady. The difference between Emma and others is that she still has a bit of self-seeking, and is working hard for her life and love, but her way of hard work has been deviated, and her own vision of understanding people is really clumsy.

From Emma, ​​we can see several principles:

1. Women must have pursuits and sustenance. Women who do not have pursuits and sustenances either cheat or become "yellow-faced women";

2. It is purely the patent of girls and boys, and women are pure. Or innocence can only make oneself a man’s plaything, not as good as a prostitute who does business with a man;

3. Life can only be climbed but not leap, and the rate of return on the ground is the highest and most stable;

4. A woman cannot choose one to be with herself anyway A man without a common language, even if he is tall, rich and handsome. Because husbands and wives do not have a common language is the beginning of family disasters.

5. Do not hurt a man who loves you willfully at any time, even if you do not love him; do not love a man lightly at any time, it depends on whether he is worth it.





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Madame Bovary quotes

  • Emma Bovary: I realized that before getting married I was contemplating my coming life like a child. In a theater, um... sitting there in high spirits, and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It was a blessing in my early youth that I did not know what was really going to happen. When I look back now, it seems that I was like an innocent prisoner, condemned not to death, but to life, and as-yet unconscious of what the sentence meant. And the longer I live, the more clearly I feel that on a whole, life's a disappointment.

  • Monsieur Lheureux: This is going to be very expensive.

    Emma Bovary: You will extend me credit, will you not?

    Monsieur Lheureux: [slides fabric swatches toward her] Money should never be the problem - only the solution.