Love Vs. Passion In Madame Bov
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In an ideal world, like the one Emma Bovary yearns for in the book Madame
Bovary, romantic relationships are based on the principle that the two
participants are madly in love with each other. But in the world Gustave Flaubert paints in his book, as in the real world, passion and personal gain are ....
Middle of paper
.... again, not
involved. He muses that her father, “old Rouault was rich, and she!-so
beautiful!”(p.15) He knows he will be marrying into a wealthy family, and he will be obtaining a “trophy wife.” As for Emma’s part in the marriage, she has no say whatsoever. She is given to Charles by her father in exchange for a dowry. So, before she is even married, she is already treated like chattel by the men in her life.
Their treatment of her by men lend in part ....
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