Madame Bovary

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Summary: BRILLIANT EXQUISITE NOVEL
Review: An eye ripping nvoel that tells the story of a very intimidating heroine. Emma Bovary, tired of her never-home husband, goes out of her way to get caught in strings of contraversial situations in those days, meaning: Making out w/a man who's not her husband. A vivid psychological novel about the corruption of a woman, who is comparable to Edna Pontellier of THE AWAKENING. Highly refreshing, easy read, and definately worth reading more than once.

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Summary: An 1800's view of a woman's life
Review: The first literary french novel that proclaims a woman's right in the world. Madame Bovary is a classical novel with the classic point of view of how a woman's life was in the late 19th century: boring. What could a woman do but flounce around her stove and sit around and socially climbing with her friends. Madame Bovary is one of the most exceptionally haunting woman characters ever to become literarily challenging and scary, what drive one psychologically to do what one does, knowing the dangerous consequences. A frightening truthful glance into a woman's life in the late 1800s.

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Summary: GIDDY LITERATURE, GREAT TRANSLATOR
Review: This edition of MADAME BOVARY is a gem of a treat to read, the literary text about a dulled wife is bluntly described, boringly written, you can feel how her life just spins by day and day, expecially what expression convinced her to carry on her secret affairs with the young clergyman, visiting him in town while telling her husband that she was going for "piano" lessons. Humerous, giddy, and joyfully greivious.

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Summary: Flaubert's Realist Portrayal of universal Human Emotions
Review: Flaubert objectively portrays his characters as fallible human beings in an environment which is both light and dark. As a Realist, Flaubert's aim might have been to show human weaknesses and lack of communication through a realistic environment. He succeeds if this was his endeavor. What makes this book fascinating to read (or to listen to) is that all of the bothersome traits of the characters usually reflect those of the reader as well! Flaubert is excellent in painting images so that one can almost feel as if he/she is in the moment. This book is very broodish though. In fact, it is slightly over done in expressing melancholy and the main character, Emma, is somewhat hard to like. At times, you may want to skip ahead. One can only stand so much darkness, in his own life, as well as in a book!

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Summary: Excellent book. A true classic
Review: This is one of the best books that I've read. The book had me going through all the emotions of the characters. Yes, Emma is selfish, but the story teaches one to appreciate what one has. We can despise and sympathize with her. One can feel the same about Charles in his ignorance. Tragic-left me crying.

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Summary: WIFE SEEKS ADVENTURE FROM ROMANCE NOVELS
Review: A bored wife of a never home lonesome doctor, Emma seeks to escape from the tiresome and bordom of her life with romantic fantasies and adulterous affairs, created by romance novels she reads, but becomes doomed to disillusionment. Unable to come to terms with reality, Emma is a figure at once noble & banal, tragic & absurd. Flaubert writes an unforgettable classic that has remained one of the most admired and influential novels ever written in my mind. With the parallel and unique 19th century writing, an unusual yet boldfaced novel.

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Summary: CRUSHING THE LIFE OUT OF HURT & PAIN
Review: Wouldn't you be tired if your doctor of a husband was never home? Well, that's how Madame Bovary feels, and aparently wants to get revenge for. Instead of going out and going on a shopping spree like how many modern day women would go about, she decides to go ahead and produce a dangerous relationship, that will choke and crush the life out of her from regret and defeat. A full blown tragity novel, MADAME BOVARY is the greatest creation of FLAUBERT GUSTAVE. Personally, a beloved classical novel of my own.

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Summary: Dainty Rich and Prosing Classical Novella
Review: A bunch of friends and I atempted to read a classic, and decided on MADAME BOVARY. I found this to be such a different type of classic, daintily written, clearly understandable. Many of the basic facts are visible, but the important ones have to be figured out through the subplot and the human mind. This woman, Madam Bovary, may live in a rich house with a wealthy of posessions life, but it seems that without companions, like children, is slowly distroying her nature of curiousity.

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Summary: Bored Housewife Looking for Fun
Review: Gustave Flaubert has created an original and somewhat hilarious female character. A tired of her husband young woman who goes out to have affairs, aggravating her husband's life and her own, but for excitement and fun. SOmeone in Madame Bovary's society and position could not risk being caught for stealing, the typical "I am bored and want fun" psycological way of life. So she decides to have an affair with her clergy, a young flutterbug of a man who doesn't know the meaning of the word love, and apparently, Madame Bovary doesn't know it's meaning either.

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Summary: ONE OF MY FAVORITES
Review: A book about a bored housewife who produces relationships that mirror her romance books... how dull is that? DULL!!! But surprisingly Flaubert has written this subject very daintily, that I actually enjoyed this light book. SUch a heavy subject to read about came very sweet and easy on my mind. Highly reccommended for an avid classic reader, who can appreciate the effects of a classical novel