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Madame Bovary: Destiny - Paper

Madame Bovary: Destiny

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 we make. Flaubert uses Emma Bovary, the main character of his novel,
to demonstrate this. Throughout her life, Emma makes many decisions, each one
of them affecting her fate and by analyzing these decisions one could see from
the beginning that Emma is destined to suffer. However, one can also pinpoint
such decisions making events as her marriage, her daughter's birth, her
adulterous ...

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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 to this, but the end conclusion is the same: if she
had not married him it would have been better for both of them. Emma would not
have been so miserable and depressed throughout her life and Charles would have
found someone who would return his love and who would appreciate him. Throughout
the novel Emma never expresses her appreciation for her husband. On the
contrary, she often expresses her loathing for him - “Charles never seemed so
disagreeable to her, his fingers never seemed so blunt, his mind so dull of his
manners so crude--.” (p.161)
However, Emma and Charles were married. An uneventful year passed and
Emma reached yet another fork in the road of life - should she have a baby now,
or wait until ...

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Added: 6/3/2006 12:43:18 PM
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