Essay Archive - Madame Bovary: Emma's Unorthodox Behavior Due To Childhood
Madame Bovary: Emma's Unorthodox Behavior Due To Childhood
From earliest infancy, an individual's character is molded by experience.
In Gustave Flaubert's novel entitled Madame Bovary, Emma's unorthodox behavior
during her married life can be attriuted to the illusions she maintained about
life during her girlhood. These, combined with her father's disinterest in her
mental happiness become the force which eventually leads Emma Bovary to commit
suicide.
When she was 13 years old, Pere Rouault took his daugh....
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