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 ....
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