Reading Provides An Escape For
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people from the ordinariness
of everyday life. Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, dissatisfied with
their lives puarsued their dreams of ecstasy and love through reading.
At the beginning of both novels Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary made
active decisions about their future although these decisio ....
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.... and escape the ordinariness of her life and
her marriage to Charles. Emma's active decisions though were based
increasingly as the novel progresses on her fantasies. The lechery to
which she falls victim is a product of the debilitating adventures her
mind takes. These adventures are feed by the novels that she reads.
They were filled with love affairs, lovers, mistresses,
persecuted ladies fainting in lonely country houses, postriders killed
at every relay, ....
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