abyss of desire

Aron 2022-09-27 04:59:02

After watching it, I was very depressed. The movie is still a little different from the novel, but the theme is the same: Emma is pushing herself to a dead end step by step because of her own vanity and desire...
Emma is romantic in her heart, but her husband is very mediocre and cowardly, which shatters She pursues the hope of a romantic life. After seeking change to no avail, she couldn't stand the stagnant life, she couldn't help the temptation, pursued beautiful clothes, pursued enjoyment of life, and even pursued romantic love and cheated on her husband twice. and made Emma's temperament even more irritable. This is more than that. Because of the pursuit of material enjoyment, she eventually owed huge bills on credit. She couldn't bear it. She even went to her lover to ask for help, and even thought of using herself for an extension of the repayment. To be liberated is the final outcome of this poor woman, which is truly heartbreaking!
Desires are hard to fill, and people’s hearts are not enough. All kinds of examples and lessons are educating people not to let their desires control themselves, and eventually they will pay a painful price. Especially in material life, after we are born, everyone's living conditions are different. This is objective and difficult to change. The lives we can afford are also different. Of course, it is not for people to accept their fate, but you have to work hard to improve yourself. Instead of squandering when your ability is not enough, you must balance your mentality. It is precisely because of Emma's education from the nobles that, as a peasant girl, she has unrealistic fantasies and unbearable reality. Step by step, she loses control and pushes herself to a dead end, resulting in tragedy.

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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.