What Does Flaubert Think of Emma

Madame Bovary is about the sprightliness of Emma Bovary whose unhappy marital flavor has cause her into illegitimate relationships with other men. Emmas pillowcase serves to stand for the women of 19th coke who found themselves in the web of unhappy life from which they failed to free themselves. The supreme theme of the refreshful is about the search of a woman for neat happiness and indep land upence but the irony of the novel is that she is deceived by the interplay of incantation and reality.Emma Bovary struggles to free herself from the conventions of the bon ton through escapades in deceptionary world and relationships which intermit her nonhing in return. Emmas character is remarkd as that of a full-blooded woman but the way the pen of the novel portrays and treats her is as valuable as the interpretation of the critics. The attitude of the author, however, has a considerable impact on the readers perception of Emmas character and the readers come to ensure the character of Emma through the eyes of Flaubert.The novel is an admixture of rebellion, violence, melodrama and sex, expertly unite in a compact plot (Llosa). What Flaubert thinks of his heroine is clear with his statement, Madame Bovary, Cest Moi? that implies that he can never think to imagine of the sufferings of Emma (Zarin). The story of Emma commences as she is get hitched with to Charles Bovary who is a physician. Charles undergoes an unhappy marital life before Emma where his wife was a master (Flaubert 10).The author treats the character of Emma with a delicacy and sensitivity as she is presented as a romantic woman whose dreams are devastated as currently as she realizes that her choice to marry a physician was fatuous, What exasperated her was that Charles did not seem to notice her anguish. His conviction that he was making her happy seemed to her an moron insult and his sureness on this point ingratitude (Flaubert 101). It seems that the author himself humanityzes with Emma and wants to father the readers attention towards her pitiful condition that is an excuse for the life she chose for herself.Another dominant theme of the novel is the interplay of illusion and reality which makes Emma to f all told upon decisions for her life. The callousness of her husband pushes her towards rebellion and she asks, for whose sake, then was she virtuous? (Flaubert 101). Emma finds escape in lascivious affairs with Leon Dupius and Rodolphe Boulanger. She could not think that the calm in which she lived was the happiness she had dreamed (Flaubert 35). The sad incident is that Charles realizes his wifes worth in his life after her death.Even when he has discovered the sleep together letter of Rodolphe he admits that all(prenominal)one must have adored her and all men assuredly must have coveted her (Flaubert 342). The attitude of Charles seems odd as substantially as he adores her as if a goddess and she seemed but the more than dishy to him for thi s (Flaubert 342). But it is the choice of Flaubert who himself is found in love with his character that raze after the enormous loss in the life of Emma she is treated with sympathy by the novelist.During her life the sole concern of Charles is his reputation, fortune and slip of papers future (Flaubert 313). Emma commits suicide and does not realize her mistakes even after she is left by her lovers. The rites of passage does not appear in her life as she felt to be disillusioed with nothing to learn , and nothing more to feel (Flaubert 35). The dilemma of Emmas life, though, is that she fails to achieve perfect happiness and the victim of her rebellion was her daughter, Berth, who is bound to work in factory after the transfer of her parents.Flaubert treats Emma as a woman who craves for wealth, joy and the superficial side of the things. The luxurious style of life attracts her as the novelists describe the silver dish covers that resound the lighted wax candles in the candl ebra and the silk linen were the things that made her eyes glimmed (Flaubert 43). The ambitions of Emma spend her to sin and death are a part of western accounting of morality and religion (Llosa). The important aspect of Emmas treatment of Flaubert is that the novelist portrays her character as a rebellious soul who is talkative in her deliver sense. Rebellion in Emmas case, says Llosa, does not have the large dimensions of that of the masculine heroes of the 19th century novel, yet it is no less heroic (Llosa). The attitude of the novelist towards the pivotal character is positive and he treats her as an virago of her own life but the fact is that Flauberts attitude inserts opposition impact on the perceptions of the readers as they come to see her character as that of a lusty woman who bears no fidelity like that of women in other 19th century novels who came to compromise with the circumstances of their lives.The critics also criticize Emma Bovary for her impulses, her inc urable materialism, her predilection for the pleasures of the body than soul and her preference for profane life which are also a part of a advanced western woman (Llosa). Here is the rebellion of an individual, ushers Llosa, and to all appearances a self centered one (Llosa). Emma Bavory represents women in 19th century society who are caught in unhappy marriages and aspire to obtain their wishes at every cost. Her story is that of a blind, stubborn, desperate rebellion against the social violence (Llosa).She violates the codes of her environs only because she is driven to act in the way as a consequence of her problems which she undergoes in her life (Llosa). The mastery of Flaubert lies in the fact that he links the thematic garb of the story with that of characterization. As the dominant themes of the novel include the struggle for independence by a woman, interplay between illusion and reality, theme of infidelity and betrayal. The interesting fact of Flauberts novel is that all of the themes are associated with the character of Emma Bovary who enjoys pivotal importance in the plot of the novel.This fact emphaizes the need to have a closer look at how is Flauberts own attitude towards the heroine of the novel and what he wants to imply through the line drawing of Emma. Emma is regarded as among the heroines about whose appearance readers are most likely to diagree (Barnes). merely Barnes finds it impossible to forgive Thackery for calling Bovary as heartless and callous. She is to be sympathized when she realizes that she is betrayed as she says to Rodolhe, You never loved me. You are no better than the others (Flaubert 310).She was betraying, ruining herself for her ambitions (Flaubert 310). Flaubert shows that Emmas engagements with the other men were due to the problems in which she was trapped and she was not unpatriotic to any one as Emma herself resolves to help her lovers when they needed, I would have condition you every thing. I would have s old all for the unfading love (Flaubert 310). Charles remains in the illusion that he had made her happy passim her life, Werent you happy? Is it my fault? I did all I could (Flaubert 316).The end of Emmas life is presented with a divinity as now a twilight dimness was settling upon her thoughts (Flaubert 317) and she filled with joy on the visions of eternal beatitude that were beginning (Flaubert 323). It was the treachery, meanness and numberless desires that had tortured her, so she is rid of all the blames by the author (Flaubert 317). The character of Emma is presented by the author with such a sensitivity that it arouses the sympathies of the readers towards Emmas character.