Appreciation of Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary mainly takes Madame Bovary's love entanglements as clues, and successfully portrays Madame Bovary as a slutty, vain and irresponsible woman through her marriage relationship with her husband Bovary and her affair with Leon and Rodov. The novel has no ups and downs and complicated structure. It mainly takes the life circle of the Bovary couple as the stage of the novel, which reflects the phenomenon of an era. From the moment he appeared, Bovary was a man with no opinion, no ability and no enterprising spirit. He lived at the mercy of others all his life. He didn't decide to study medicine by himself, or he had his own ideals. Because of his depravity, it took him five more years to pass the doctor's grade exam. He married an ugly, scrawny widow of forty-five, just because of her good income of one thousand two hundred francs a year. He thought that once he got married, his living conditions would get better, and his family's money could be spent casually. I didn't expect that his wife was still the master, and all his words and deeds were restricted by his wife. It can be seen that Bovary has no correct concept of marriage at all, and his marriage is completely a money transaction. It is simply the sorrow of men to be so self-contemptuous. It is also his lack of correct attitude towards marriage that led to Emma's affair, which is another story. After Eloise died, Bovary married Emma and lived a loving life. But this kind of love is deformed. Emma's countless trifles kept him happy, and he finally felt that his wife was more important than his husband. However, he was only immersed in his personal happiness and never really knew whether his wife was as happy as he was. His reaction and feeling are very slow, even when Emma recites love poems for him, he is as indifferent as ever. After Emma's death, he discovered that the woman he loved was not as holy and beautiful as he imagined. She cheated on him and committed adultery with two men! And he doesn't know anything! It can be seen that Bovary didn't know his wife from the bottom of his heart at all. What exactly is the happiness she wants? His hindsight, his indifference, his ignorance and his lack of progress all make Emma feel lonely; His medical skills were not too hard, but he was encouraged by others to do surgery to correct Illibert's deformed foot, which caused Illibert to lose a leg! This made Emma feel so humiliated that she planned to elope with her lover Rodov. If Bovary is interesting, opinionated, hardworking and doesn't sleep while reading, he should be a good husband and doctor, and Emma won't cheat because of loneliness and disgust. The breakdown of love is a double responsibility. Not to mention Emma's restlessness, from Bovary's point of view, she didn't fulfill her husband's responsibility of caring for his wife and bringing her joy, and didn't make Emma feel happy. In the reality of romantic France at that time, it was natural for Emma to go out to have an affair. Therefore, for his wife's infidelity, Bovary bears great responsibility. After Emma's death, Bovary didn't resent his rival in love, thinking it was fate, which was a sign of cowardice. His wife has committed adultery with someone, and he is still calm. He has no self-esteem and is a loser! Bovary was also an irresponsible father. He indulged in personal happiness and grief and died, leaving a young daughter Bert, who eventually became a child laborer in a spinning mill. His death didn't make me feel his undying love for Emma, but it made me feel that he was shirking his responsibility. Who will pay back the huge loan? Who raised the young daughter? Even if one person's sky is dark, you can't let other people's sky be covered with dark clouds and be implicated. She deserves a happy childhood. Compared with Bovary, Emma, that is, Madame Bovary, is a woman who is restless, vain, slutty and pursues true love. Emma is not content with the status quo. She believes that the appearance of Bovary may bring excitement enough for her to get that kind of love that is beyond her reach. However, as soon as she got married, she regretted it: "God! How can I get married? " She could have met another man. Think about how popular she was with the male guests at the graduation ceremony. But now, her life is as boring as a silent spider spinning a web in every dark corner of her heart, and as bleak as the north building with a skylight facing north. "Emma returned to the drawer and accidentally pricked her finger with something. It was the wire on her wedding bouquet. ..... She picked up the bouquet and threw it into the fire. … Emma watched it burn. ..... The paper petals slowly curled up, flying like black butterflies against the furnace wall, and finally flew away from the chimney. " Marriage, for a woman, is prudent and lifelong. But judging from Emma's attitude towards fireworks, she doesn't care about this marriage. Wopizza's ball made her heart once rich, and she would never fade. She is tired of the poor life now, and envies the luxurious and dissolute life of the upper class. She is beautiful and graceful. She can jump out of the fire pit and pursue a flashy life. Moving to Rongzhen, she has betrayed her marriage ideologically since she met Leon, who has the same topic with her. In frequent conversations, Madame Bovary found herself gradually falling in love with this young man, and even thought about eloping with Leon. She knew that Leon loved her, but she dared not reveal her heart to Emma. She regretted not keeping him after Leon left. The love ended before it could begin. To this end, Madame Bovary was seriously ill. Three years later, the reunion rekindled their old love. However, Emma at that time was no longer Emma who would have scrupled about moral codes in those years. After her love with Rodov, she had become lascivious. Of course, in the past three years, Leon has often interacted with frivolous children, and his fear has long been exhausted. Emma frantically signed bills for her lover, and eventually she accumulated a mountain of debts and fell into a desperate situation of ruin. After Leon left, Rodov, a passionate veteran in love, came into Emma's life. Rodolfo's sweet words swept Emma off her feet, and her vanity swelled rapidly. Emma hesitated at first, but she succumbed to Rodolfo's repeated attacks. Emma felt that she had finally found the life she longed for in the novel, which was both exciting and joyful. When Bovary's operation to correct Illibert's deformed foot failed, Emma had no face to take up a part-time job, which she felt was a shame. So I decided to abandon my present life and fly with Rodolfo. But Rodov chickened out. For a married woman, he left his hometown and had to bear the burden of a daughter. He felt it was not worth it. Everything is just an act. He wrote a cruel letter, which perfectly concealed his tiredness in the ridiculous words. On the contrary, he blamed everything on the word "fate" and tried his best to pass the buck. He left mercilessly as if nothing had happened. Emma broke down and never recovered. She gave her sincerity and enthusiasm to every love she had, but later the ruthless reality told her that they were just playing with her and coveting her beauty. But she always naively thought that she had found love and happiness. She accumulated a mountain of debts for her lovers and fell into a desperate situation of ruin, but no one would come out to help her! At this moment, when she endangered her own interests, the ugliness of the world was revealed before Emma's eyes. She was desperate and had no choice but to die. After a long meditation, I found that this novel reflected three phenomena in French capitalist society at that time. First, the marriage and love of money transactions Some people say that money is omnipotent. As long as you have money, you can buy anything, even feelings. Bovary's first marriage is a good proof. Because Eloise has a good income of 1,2 francs a year, Bovary's mother tried her best to make the widow become Bovary's first wife. Later, because Eloise's notary fled, her in-laws bullied her. Her power and status changed strongly before and after. When she was rich, she was in charge of the family, and she had the final say. When she went bankrupt, she seemed to lie and was bullied by her in-laws. Similarly, Emma's love with her two lovers has always been linked to money. Bovary loves his wife, so what? His incompetence and cowardice have made his love worthless and even a little annoying. Her lovers, on the other hand, are favored by her because of their talent or wealth. She loves them, but, more precisely, it should be the excitement and pleasure of loving their money transactions. This reflects that money marriage defeated love marriage in society at that time. Money society makes money marriage. When two people are together for the benefit, the relationship is just a transaction without real feelings, which is a kind of social sorrow. If you find a rich wife, she will look down on you and tell you to do this and that every day, and men will lose their self-esteem, and women will become more and more unhappy when they see such a hopeless man. Such a marriage will not last. Rich men will treat women as dolls, without any emotional factors, and then find a new woman after finishing one. This is extremely unfair to women. In this society, only because of money transactions, the world will lack true feelings. Second, the moral decay Emma cheated again and again, betrayed her family, and blindly pursued self-righteous love, which was extremely irresponsible. She never said she was sorry all her life until she died. It is immoral for her to destroy a family, even a family without love, and pin her happiness on the suffering of others. She showed the loveless side of her marriage to others, and used it as an excuse to legalize infidelity and turned it into an object of sympathy. Everyone should have human nature and moral values. It is not impulsive to start a family and have children. If it is not well thought out, why did he agree to Bovary's proposal? Married, she should be loyal to her family. If she is not satisfied with her marriage, she can divorce and pursue her so-called happiness. However, it is shameful that she cheated on her kind husband, regardless of Bovary's face and reputation, ignored her daughter's growing environment, abandoned the moral bottom line many times and made peace with her lover. Marriage needs mutual care and respect, and Emma's vanity has ruined her morality. She no longer cares about what others think of her, and no longer pretends to be a good wife and mother as before. False love blinded her eyes, so that she could not distinguish right from wrong and could not find the bottom line of morality. Third, the description of Omo and the priest in the obscene novels about religion reveals a religious culture, and some of their words truly and profoundly reveal the religious phenomenon in the society at that time. Religion originally gave people a kind of spiritual support and sustenance, but in the novel, it is not difficult to find that Christianity has become an excuse for hypocrisy and posturing. For believers at that time, Omo was a stubborn religious reactionary, but the author portrayed him as a truly devout believer, which made him in sharp contrast with other so-called religious workers and revealed that hypocritical people did things against their will under the guise of Christianity. According to his own principles, he compared the priest to a crow that flies where there is the smell of death. As soon as he saw the priests, he felt uncomfortable, because their robes reminded him of the shroud. He hated the former, partly because he was afraid of the latter. Mr. omer made no secret of his true views on religion. His belief in Christianity is not confined to the silver plate and holy water in the church, nor is it regulated by the tampered scriptures by sects and organizers in the world. He firmly believes that the belief in God is hidden in his heart, and worship is not formal, but should be kept in his heart and can be done anytime and anywhere. In contrast, the priest, as a worker of religious affairs, always shows off the rules and regulations in front of people, and always puts on a set of empty and completely unrealistic sermons. His beliefs are rigid, blind, self-interested and utilitarian. Flaubert satirized the religious corruption of the society at that time through literary works, and criticized the evil nature of the capitalist society that harmed human nature, corroded people's souls and even devoured people.