Madame bovary by gustave flaubert

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Madame Bovary
By
Gustave Flaubert
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Introduction

• Book Title Madame Bovary
• Written by Gustave Flaubert
• Genre Realist Novel
• Date of publication 1856
• Country France

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• Madame Bovarys story open with the boy
  Charles Bovary who is dull and unconfident.
  Belongs to a middle-class family, after a huge
  struggle, he just succeeds to be a doctor of the
  countryside.
• On the suggestion of his mother, he married
  to a widower who was much older than him. But
  soon died. After the death of his wife, attract
  toward Emma and married her. She was the daughter
  of one of his patient.
• But Emma and Charles have no match. She was
  the girl who fantasizes, always dreams and was
  very romantic but another side Charles was dull,
  simple and very realistic. It causes that Emma
  unable to satisfy her dreams and ideas, so
  because of her dissatisfaction, she becomes ill
  and depressed.

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• On her pregnancy, Charles decide to shift the
  place for the sake of her happiness and at the
  new town she gave birth a beautiful girl but she
  was still sad.
• In this town, she attracts toward a young clerk
  named Leon but soon realized that she is
  married so ignore her feeling. It causes that
  Leon decides to leave for further study. As a
  result, she started to neglect all her duties as
  a wife and a mother. For her, Bovary and his love
  for her have no importance.
• Sometime after she move to a passionate
  affair with her rich neighbour Rodolphe but
  very he bored and abandon her. Due to this, she
  became seriously ill.

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• Charles struggles to recover her but she still
  not care for him or respect his love. During an
  opera program, she meet Leon and began an affair
  with him.
• At this stage, she becomes totally passionate
  toward his ideas and thoughts. She started to
  spend her husbands money freely and also brow
  money to afford daily city trips. Day by day she
  was sinking into the deep debts.
• Her husband Bovary have no idea that what his
  wife was doing. He was blindly believing her due
  to his stupid innocence.

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• Meanwhile, the money lender starts demanding to
  return to his debts. The afraid, Emma beg help to
  Leon, Rodolphe, and other business owners of the
  town but any of them didnt help her so she
  poisoned herself and died.
• When Charles Bovary struck to the truth of his
  wife. He too died lonely in his garden.

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• The End