Madame Bovary: Destiny
Beginning of paper
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 ....
Middle of paper
.... 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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Word count: 1048
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
