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Madame Bovary: Come and Take Me If You Can

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"Madame Bovary", a novel by French novelist Gustave Flaubert, in 1856. Flaubert reconstructed a conventional story of adultery into a lasting work of heartfelt humanity. Madame Bovary is considered Flaubert’s masterpiece, and, according to some, it ushered in a new age of realism in literature.


Come And Take Me: If You Can


Emma is a stunning adequately dressed fashionable lady that is thoroughly schooled cultivated in a retreat. She has a compelling longing for indulgences and courtship stimulated by expressing conventional fictions. The proportions concerning a farm girl thrust toward an uncluttered lifestyle of disciplined decency, before-mentioned survive unprecedented byproduct of an illusory realm against her desperate endeavor from escapism amidst an environment of privations, suddenly voracious extremities to effect an unfathomable circumstance of desolation. She captivates the fancies of a married young simple-minded and unsuspecting country Docteur Bovary. Her farmer father gives his consent, and Emma then marries Bovary after his rude, nonetheless, well-to-do wife, suddenly dies, whereto, after a decent period of courtship in succession of marriage. Although she contemplates matrimony as a gateway towards entertainment, moreover, enterprise, she promptly discovers that her solitary enthusiasm originates from occasional ascents of delusion she necessitates whilst addressing sentimental "rousseauistic" and "wordsworthian" fictions. She matures frequently annoyed and wretched with her middle-class permanence, and despite significant childbirth of their daughter, Berthe, presents Emma, limited satisfaction. Apprehending toward idealized intimacy, Emma rises to achieve an escape touching her tempestuous fantasies, furthermore, embarks on a sequentially calamitous love intrigue with Rodolphe, a regional landowner. She makes enthusiastic arrangements for them to run away contemporaneously, but Rodolphe has become drained of her and terminates the relationship. An offended Emma develops brain fever and is bedridden for more than a month. She later takes up with Léon, a former acquaintance, and her memoir matures frequently chaotic. She espouses abstraction and concupiscence, pleasure and overlooks corporeal substance itself, as symbolized through money. She is thoroughly incapable of distinguishing between her romantic paragons and the severe realities of her life even as her interest in Léon wanes. Her debts having spun out of control, she begs for money, but all turn her down, including Léon and Rodolphe. Amongst ostensibly nowhere to transform and on the terminus of economic dilapidation including unrestricted divulgence of her secretive course, Emma swallows arsenic and dies a painful death. A grief-stricken Charles, who had been oblivious of Emma’s affairs, notwithstanding, remained devoted to his deceased wife even as he struggles to pay her debts. After discovering love letters from Rodolphe and Léon, he becomes increasingly despondent but blames Emma’s affairs on predestination. Shortly thereafter he dies, and Berthe ultimately ends up working at a cotton factory.


2020 February 11

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