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2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

3. content About the author Analyses of characters Major characters
Summary
Analyses of characters
About Madame Bovary
Theme Analysis

4. Gustave flaubert(1821-1880) Nationality : France
Occupation: novelist, playwright
Literary: realism

5. Major works Madame Bovary (1857)《包法利夫人》 Salammbo (1862) 《萨郎波》
Sentimental Education (1869)《情感故事》
Three Tales (1877) 《三个故事》
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6. Major characters of the novel
Emma Bovary
Charles Bovary
Leon
Rodolphe
Mr Homais
Mr Lheureux

7. Emma Bovary
A country girl educated in a convent(女修道院) and married to Charles Bovary at a young age .

8. Charles Bovary
A country doctor. He lacks intelligence but loves Emma very much.

9. Rodolphe
Emma's first lover, a shrewd(精明的) and rich bachelor.
Leon
Emma's early friend and later her second lover.

10. Other characters Mr Homais ----A chemist in Yonville
Mr Lheureux----A greedy merchant in Yonville,he made Emma have a vast debt and wanted to get possessions of Mr Bovary.
Berthe---The daughter of Charles and Emma Bovary.
Heloise--Bovary's first wife.
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11. Summary

12. 2.Emma married Charles Bovary ,then felt bored about her marriage.
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1.The growth background of Charles Bovary made him grow to be a kind, simple, dull, and unremarkable man.
2.Emma married Charles Bovary ,then felt bored about her marriage.
3.Became the mistress of Roldphe,but soon was abandoned by him.

13. 4. Met Leon again and became his lover quickly
4.Met Leon again and became his lover quickly.During this period ,Emma spent a lot of money and made a vast debt.
5.Be asked to pay off the debt ,had no money and tried to lend money from her lovers ,but neither lent her.
6.Could not pay off the debt and worried about the ruin of her reputation ,suicided.
7.Mr Bovary know all the things ,sad ,mad, died.

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15. Analysis of Emma
She pursues idealistic romance, sophistication, sensuality and passion.Very beautiful.

16. Analysis about Charles Bovary
A country doctor, kind, but simple,dull,and unremarkable . Bovary is a terrible doctor who manages simple cases decently but is incapable of performing difficult operations.He loves Emma but does not understand her.

17. Analyses about the two lovers
Rodolphe is shrewd, selfish. He has many lovers,Emma is only one of them.He refuses to lend money to Emma when she needs it most.
Flaubert presents Leon as awkward and full of himself .

18. Analysis of Mr Homais
The chemist at Yonville,selfish. he is only befriending Charles because he wants Charles to turn a blind eye to his illegal medical practices.
  He is the perfect embodiment （化身）of all the bourgeois(中产阶级) values and characteristics that is so disgust（厌恶）by Flaubert.
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19. About Madame Bovary

20. About Madame Bovary
• This story takes place in the early 19th century in the French countryside. Gustave Flaubert,the author ,was sickened with the French middle class he was born into.He believes them to be lazy ,unconcerned and selfish. Madame Bovary is a self-centered, envious, and dramatic middle class French woman.

21. About Madame Bovary
Flaubert spent over five years writing the novel. At times,he spent one week writing and rewriting two pages of the novel.he took great care in writing Madame Bovary ,more care than any novelist before him.

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23. Theme Analysis
Desire
woman

24. Desire
Emma not only desires love but is impelled to desired herself. For this reason she pushes her lovers to continually give proof of their desire for her.She insists that both Rodolphe and Leon to write her letters and poetry,and she makes increasingly greater demands on both.For instance,she insists that Rodolphe think of her at a particular time in the evening .Ironically,her immense need for displays of love succeeds only in driving both men away. Other characters are also driven by their desires .

25. Homais, for example, desires the reward from the government
  Homais, for example, desires the reward from the government .The merchant Lheureux’s passion is obviously the money.  Charles Bovary‘s desires are seemingly （表面上）fulfilled when he marries Emma, which leads to his lack of professional ambition

26. Women Emma's failure is not completely her own, but also her character and the position of women in the nineteenth century. ( for example ,at that time, she has no other means of finding money except using sex as an exchange ) If Emma were a rich man as her lover Rodolphe ,she would be free to indulge the lifestyle she imagines.

27. Flaubert suggests that her dissatisfaction with the bourgeois society she lives in is justified. But Emma's inability to accept her situation and her attempt to escape it cause harm to innocent people around her, for example, her husband and her daughter.

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