Madame Bovary: Emma's Unorthodox Behavior Due To Childhood
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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 disin ....
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.... lions and tigers roamed the forest, with
Roman Ruins surrounded by virgin forests and lakes full of swans. "And the
shaded oil-lamp . . . lit up all these pictures of the world, which flowed by on
after another, in the silence of the dormitory, to the distant sound of a late
cab somewhere still rolling along the boulevards." (page 30) In short, Emma
fell in love with a world that never existed anywhere. She embraced the
elegance of the life in the pictures which she had hung in her dormito ....
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