Madame Bovary: Destiny
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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 ....
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.... on a farm. We conclude this because she attended a boarding school where
she was taught “dancing, geography, needlework and piano.” (p.15) Charles, on
the other hand, gives her more credit than she deserves. He regards her as well
very educated, sophisticated, sensitive and loving, with the last characteristic
being the one she lacks most. Soon after Emma marries Charles we see her
unhappiness, and we are faced with a dilemma, why did she marry him? There are
numerous possible answers ....
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