Essay Archive - Madame Bovary: Destiny
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 decisio....
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