"She wants to die, and she wants to live in Paris."
Synopsis
The protagonist at the center of the tragedy, named Emma, her soul is full of passion, and throughout her life, she has never stopped pursuing the love she fantasizes about in her heart, but she is naïve and selfish, and such complex characteristics make her make wrong choices in life choices again and again, and finally lead her to a situation of no return.
At first her encounter with Monsieur Bovary was full of chance. Mr. Bovary (also known as Charlie) met Emma, who was still a young girl at the time, during a consultation, and since then, Charlie has been constantly looking for opportunities to get close to Emma, and the relationship between the two has gradually warmed up.
Emma had studied at the convent's girls' school, where she had grown up under the influence of romanticism, her mind was full of romantic fantasies, she was full of expectations for her future love, she was addicted to such a far-away imagination, there was no idea of reality and love, all from the indoctrination of romantic novels.
Shali is a good man in the traditional sense, in the book, you can hardly find any special flaws in him, he is polite, even in a bad marriage that he can't decide, in the face of his ugly wife, he is still willing to accommodate a person he does not love, and still mourn her death. However, Charlie's overly gentle disposition has also cultivated his conformist personality, in his life, he never wants to cross the thunder pool half a step, his life is too passive, lack of his own opinion on things, and this is an important reason for his separation from Emma.
The first encounter was always good and they had a wonderful time newly married. Soon, however, Emma discovers that her marriage to Charlie is far from what she imagined. In Emma's imagination, love should be like a legend in the novel, full of adventure and unknown, but the daily dullness of life makes her tired, she yearns for the life of high society, imagining that she can get her true love in the princes and nobles. She begins to resent the good old man Charlie, who is a good man and cannot be faulted, but his life is always a stagnant pool, and Emma feels that her marriage has changed from love to a cage for her own pursuit of love. The more XiaLi accommodated her, the more her dissatisfaction with Xiali deepened.
Talk is as flat as a sidewalk, opinion is vulgar, dressed like a pedestrian, and does not arouse emotions, nor can it arouse laughter or dreams." Charlie couldn't swim, couldn't compare swords, couldn't shoot guns. Once Emma asked him in the term of a horseback ride in a legendary novel, and he was stunned
A man should be omniscient and omnipotent, proficient in eighteen martial arts, and be able to impart to you the energy of passion, the elegance of life, and all the mysteries of life, right? But this man, who teaches nothing, understands nothing, doesn't have any expectations for the future. He thought she was happy, and it was this calmness that she hated him, this leisurely dullness, the happiness she had let him enjoy.
If that were the case, their seemingly divorced marriage might have survived, but life made another snarky joke, and by chance Emma attended the Marquis's ball, which allowed Emma to see the real high society, let her see the viscount of her dreams, who was noble and elegant, and from then on, Emma's soul was destined to never be at peace. She meticulously collected the cigarette box she had received at the ball, like a fantasy that she could never achieve, and from then on, her heart could no longer stay on Charlie for a moment, she fantasized that she was a legendary princess, with a shocking and tacky love, fantasizing about living in a castle, singing night and night. And the cruelest part is that her dream is doomed to be shattered, and her origin and her family situation cannot allow her to have this dream. There is only a glimmer of separation between reality and fantasy, and the dance party tears the curtain between the two, and Emma can no longer bear the dull life. Her heart had left Charlie and flew off into the distance.
After that, Emma began to ignore Xiali's love, and her personality began to become gloomy and bitter, obedient and mean, and Xiali was afraid that Emma would be sick, so she moved to Yongzhen, and soon, the gears of fate began to turn.
In Yongzhen, Emma meets a young blonde, Leon, with whom she sees each other and has similar interests, and soon the relationship quickly closes. Yet they never crossed that red line.
Soon after, Emma gave birth to a daughter for Charlie, Pente. However, Emma found herself seemingly in love with Leon, and was so distraught that she accidentally pushed her daughter down.
Leon is also infatuated with Emma at this time, and in order to get rid of this feeling, Leon decides to go to Paris to complete the course. The two reluctantly bid farewell, the relationship was shelved before it really began, and the story between them did not end there.
After that, Emma fell into a period of lows, she fell into the infinite memory of Leon, she regretted that she did not grasp the love in time, and for no reason, her dislike for her husband became more and more intense.
Soon, a small landowner, Rodolfo, came looking for Monsieur Bovary and asked him to bleed his groom, and as soon as he saw Madame Bovary's beauty, he mentally calculated the means of seduction. As a thirty- or forty-year-old veteran of the love scene, the young and naïve Emma was naturally not her opponent, and soon she was attracted by Rodolfo's hypocritical demeanor and devoted her passion for love to Rodolph.
Emma found the sustenance of her own beautiful fantasy, Rodolph. She thought she had found her true destiny, reveled in her love with him, and fantasized about wandering the world with him.
However, in Rodolphe's view, Emma was no different from his other mistresses, and he knew that his relationship with Emma could not last long. Rodolfo was already a veteran, and he was naturally handy for sweet talk, but these were just lies for her beauty, and throughout, he only regarded her as a good-looking vase. And Emma did not know that she could not stand such a sneaky underground love, begging Rodolphe to elope with her, Rodolphe pretended to agree, but just before leaving, he left only a false letter without saying goodbye, from beginning to end, Rodolfo loved only himself. On the day of the agreed departure, Emma did not wait for Rodolfo, but saw his carriage speeding down the road, Emma suddenly understood everything, and she fainted after receiving such a blow.
Frustrated, Emma was once disheartened, bedridden, and threw herself into the arms of religion, wanting to become a good wife and mother, and began to read many religious books. She began to repent of what she had done to her husband, and she devoted her passion to educating little Bellt, but her restless soul never really calmed down.
However, Emma's guilt for Charlie soon disappeared, and as Charlie's operation failed, Emma's contempt and contempt for Charlie returned, and she began to regret that she had married such a man.
For Emma's recovery, Charlie took her to the opera, but after meeting Leon again, her silent soul began to chase love again, and she secretly borrowed money from the merchant, just to give gifts to please him, but she did not know that she was already in debt.
After she squandered the property that Charlie had given her to manage, she soon ushered in her final destiny.
Emma soon paid the price for her ignorance, her huge debt was about to expire, the debtor approached Emma, and if there was no way to repay the money, Mr. Bovary's family property would be used to pay off the debt, and Mr. Bovary knew nothing about Emma's behavior. Emma woke up like a dream, and she began to borrow money from everyone she knew, hoping to get through this. But reality disappointed her, and both of her lovers ruthlessly abandoned her. She went to borrow money from the lawyer, Ju Yuman, but the old ghost wanted to possess her while she was in a hurry. She walked away angrily. Finally, she thought of Xu Yute going to Rodolfo for help, but Rodolphe had no sympathy for Emma's plight and refused to borrow money, while Leon lied that he could not borrow money and avoided Emma. Emma was humiliated in the process of borrowing money, and after seeing the betrayal of her lover and the indifference of others, her fragile spirit was no longer enough to support herself.
Upon returning, Emma sneaked to the pharmacist and secretly took the arsenic hidden in the attic, and at the end, facing the agonizing Monsieur Bovary, Emma said to him, "You are a good man." She looked at her own child for the last time, leaving this world forever.
After Emma's death, Charlie lingered in pain, he sold his property to pay off Emma's debts, until one day, he found Emma's correspondence with her lover, he was shocked to realize his wife's betrayal of himself, in the face of her departure and her betrayal, he was at a loss, fell into deeper pain. But even so, when he met Rodolfo, his weakness and kindness still made him choose to forgive. Under all kinds of blows, Xiali soon died and left his daughter behind.
Looking back on Emma's life, she actually had many unique gifts, she had outstanding beauty, she also had excellent talent (she once helped Mr. Bovary write letters for treatment fees), there was a deeply loved her, a husband who could accommodate her in every way, but in the end, all this failed to save her, and she eventually went further and further down the wrong road under the teasing of fate.
The direct cause of all these tragedies can only be attributed to herself, who not only ruined her own life, but also her husband and daughter. She could have had a happy family, a good life. However, she was always dissatisfied, could not see everything she had, blindly pursued the so-called "love", and finally ended up with a sad end.
Doesn't she deserve love? Is it because she is from a low birth that she does not deserve to have fantasies about love? In fact, from the very beginning, she went in the wrong direction, she never knew what she really wanted, just blindly followed her own feelings, she only saw the passionate and energetic side of love, blindly chasing the sun, not seeing her own direction, this fiery flame of love eventually burned herself and the people around her to ashes.
What pushed her into the abyss was not love, but her own ignorance and naivety. She abandoned her responsibilities, to her husband, she always abandoned, and for her children, she failed to fulfill her educational responsibilities. Her understanding of love is superficial and one-sided, mistaking sweet words for deep soul love, and finally in the betrayal of her lover, she realizes her mistake, but unfortunately it is too late.
She loves the sea only the terrifying waves of the sea, and loves the grass only the grass that grows among the ruins. She must get some kind of benefit from the matter. Anything that does not help her to vent her feelings is regarded as useless and discarded--precisely because of her multi-sensory nature, it is far above the love of art. She's looking for emotions, not landscapes. Quoted on page 30
She has a pair of moving eyes, but she is blind to reality and truth. Finally, in the end, she heard not the hymn of heaven, but the song of a blind man, who, although her eyes were sound, was like a blind man, only by virtue of her own form of feeling, deceived by rhetoric, and finally ended up taking poison and committing suicide.
The author Flaubert once said that Emma must die, why is this? Because of Emma's tragedy, the deeper reason is the sick society at that time, Flaubert through Emma, profoundly showed the current situation of the society at that time, Emma's personal tragedy is a microcosm of the times, when she needs education the most, what she obtains is the false love of those who catch the wind and shadows in the novel, the influence of the environment on a person is subtle, Emma is the effect, then the French society at that time is the cause. This reflects the satire of The Critical Realist Master Flaubert of French society at that time, in which all people are immersed in false prosperity and turn a blind eye to and hear what is really important. Emma's death sublimates the entire plot.
Emma's tragedy is an accident, made up of many accidental factors, but Emma's tragedy is inevitable under that society.
Maybe there is no Emma in the world at all, or, as Flaubert said, Emma is himself, or maybe we are the Emma of the times without knowing it.