sinister world

Bethany 2022-10-29 09:17:16

The master's handwriting is to surround the reader gradually and quietly, making you feel numb and unable to stop - Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" is such a masterpiece. Through the sketches of the scenery at your fingertips, the pallor and lack of Emma's spirit, who exudes a strong romantic atmosphere, is vividly expressed. Come, people always feel that its image is vivid on paper.

Back to the content, it's downright tragic. Emma, ​​who grew up in the atmosphere of romantic knighthood, married a country doctor, Charles, and found that life was not as fun and adventurous as depicted in the book, and the two had no spiritual communication. So driven by desire, Emma cheated. In order to meet the high quality of life, she kept overdrafting, until one day they went bankrupt. Emma asked two lovers for help, but they looked at each other coldly. Desperate Emma had to take poison and commit suicide to seek relief. .

After reading it, you may say that if you believe in the romance of the book, it is hypocritical, thinking that this is not life? However, when it comes to investigation, isn't it precisely the maximization of the interests of all evil capitalism, which regards people as a tool for profit-seeking, that killed Emma? Ha ha. Flaubert, through all this, man is no longer just an individual, the world is still full of sinister.

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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.