Some people say that love should be the eyes raining for her, but the heart is holding an umbrella for her.
Some people feel that love is chai rice oil and salt, and they are not separated from each other.
Some people think that the love of Westerners is like a strongly open flower, and the love of Easterners is like a subtle fragrance between two flowers.
Everyone understands love.
True love should be like a storm, lightning and thunder, thrilling, losing one's mind and completely immersed in madness and confusion.
This was Madame Bovary's idea. She is a simple, fantasistic, romantic woman.
The pursuit of romance and the love of fantasy are not wrong in themselves, but this temperament, which conflicts with the people around her and the marriage she is in, eventually leads to a disaster.
Madame Bovary is a classic by the French writer Flaubert and is listed among the world's top ten novels.
After reading the novel, I remembered two lyrics: You get it, so I'm free; you don't understand, so I fall.
Madame Bovary was like this, longing for love in marriage, longing for understanding in love. Because I didn't understand, I fell.
It is easy to condemn from the moral high ground, but it is also boring, but it is better to abandon the shackles of secular standards and look at it with an inclusive heart, and better understand the big book of human nature.
Marriage in the same bed and different dreams
The heroine of the novel is named Emma, the farmer's daughter.
Emma was young and beautiful, romantic by nature, and during her time in the convent, she learned to play the piano and paint, but because she couldn't stand the rules and precepts there, she was taken back by her father.
She likes to read romance novels, seek thrills, and fantasize about love, such as heroes galloping on black horses, such as holding a torch for a wedding in the middle of the night.
Unfortunately, her father threw a bland wedding for her, and she became Madame Bovary.
Mr. Bovary is a different kind of person entirely.
He was diligent, honest, and even a little wooden, and completed the life procedures such as studying, practicing medicine, and getting married step by step under the arrangement of his parents.
After the death of his first wife, he married Emma.
The second marriage made Bovary feel satisfied, and he felt that he could not love enough in the face of his young and beautiful wife.
He obeyed her and obeyed her; every day when he went out, he would turn around and throw a flying kiss, clinging to her; he would quietly step forward and kiss her back, with affection.
Emma quickly became suspicious of the marriage because she did not feel the happiness, unsentimentality, and fanaticism of love.
She longed for the violent sea, longed for her husband to listen to her inner thoughts, and the book reads:
"If his gaze, even if only once, touched her heart, many words would come out."
Bovary worked hard, but he would not come to trouble, although gentle and considerate, but lacked the mood of life, and whenever Emma asked him for advice on something, he always asked three questions.
Emma led him to the moon before the flower and recited passionate verses. But he was indifferent to these things, and he did not show praise.
So she began to doubt her husband, suspecting that his various manifestations of love were just out of habit.
The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear. As a reader, I know that Bovary is not not loving her, but that he will not love her the way she wants.
The tedium of marriage, the vanity of human nature, prompts Emma to think of right and wrong — another husband... Another life... She longed for the joy that the dance would bring, and the madness of the lights.
Although in the same bed, after all, it is a different dream, because one is trapped in reality, and one is addicted to fantasy.
How many couples in the world, like Bovary and Emma, have the same bed and dream in marriage?
A woman who craves to understand
In a sense, life is the product of the mind.
As a wife and mother, Emma is tired of being bland, she always craves passion, and soon has her first lover, Leon.
He was a new intern at the small town law firm, young, shy, and eager to move, but he didn't know how to express it, nor did he have the courage to express it.
Emma and the young man found common ground, and the two exchanged books, talked about lyric poetry, and looked at each other from a distance while fiddling with flowerpots on their respective windowsills.
Compared with her uninteresting husband, coupled with the middle-aged fortune, Leon looks very cute and can't help but want to love.
Emma is a bit bad, knowing that the other party is interested in her, but pretending to be reserved in order to enjoy the joy in the imagination of the other party's emotional stages.
It's not so much that Emma is in love with Leon as she is hooked on the feeling of loving and being loved.
Looking deeper, she actually wants to gain understanding through love.
"She really hoped that Leon could read her mind, and she envisioned opportunities and events to help Leon read her heart," the book reads. ”
However, Leon, the young chick, could not read and did not act, and then went far away because of his work.
Love is not possible, but the fire of lust has been ignited, and Emma feels pain.
Bovary, who shared the bed, was unaware of this and thought that he had given his wife happiness.
She hated Bovary and felt that her husband's presence was an obstacle to her pursuit of true happiness.
Flaubert is deeply human and understands the woman's heart, and he ruthlessly exposes Emma's complex psychology at this time:
The ordinariness of family life prompts her to yearn for luxury, and the blandness of the relationship between husband and wife makes her yearn for an affair.
She really hoped that Bovary would beat her up and give her more reason to hate him and take revenge on him.
Sometimes, she was also amazed at her cruel thoughts.
Man is always contradictory, and when he pursues freedom and desires love, but he cannot get rid of the constraints of worldly morality, he looks for reasons from others as an excuse for self-liberation.
Is it wrong for a woman who likes romance, passion, and yearns for a life of luxury?
I can't help but think: If Bovary understood the woman's heart, was a little more romantic, and a little more interesting, would his wife still escape from the wall of the besieged city?
The end of the family being destroyed
Emma's second lover, Rodolph, is the owner of the manor and a veteran of the love scene.
With just a few words, he understood Emma's mind. He knew that to get this woman into his hands, a piece of cake.
The time has come —
There was an agricultural fair in town, and as the crowd listened to officials in the square, Rodolph and Emma were alone upstairs in a room.
He tempted her, pandered to her, complimented her, and drunk her with indulgent means, coupled with wild love words.
In this way, what should be done and what should not be done has been done.
At this point in the story, Flaubert analyzes Emma's mental activity again:
She finally had the joy of love, the frenzy of happiness, the things that had made her despair. She is entering a magical world of male and female love, enchanting and crazy.
This stupid stupid woman is too obsessed with the fantasy of love.
She was too obsessed with the feeling of loving and being loved, and this love and being loved was largely based on carnal desires and mixed with the impurities of money and fame.
Strong enough, but not pure.
Because of Rodolph, Emma loved a certain feeling of awakening in her heart.
She thought that this was love, but she didn't know that in the lover's place, it was just a game.
Once a woman indulges in the fantasy of love, she will become irrevocable.
Losing her mind, Emma offers to elope, and Rodolphe agrees, but escapes.
The blow caused Emma to nearly commit suicide in so much pain.
She decided to be human again, but the habit of fantasy had become part of her life.
When she reunites with Leon in the theater, the dark flames of lust rekindle.
Leon was no longer shy, he had learned the tricks of bad men, and each time he fell in love without being able to do so, causing a deeper desire to make Emma more moth to the fire than ever.
In order to meet her lover, Emma began to lie a lot; in order to covet pleasure, Emma laid the first IOU to the lender, but the second, the third...
In one meeting after another, in the midst of crazy and confused pleasures, Emma is in debt but unaware, until the debt collector is forced to the door.
In desperation, Emma asks her lover Rodolfo for help, saying that she can't help; and she asks Leon for help, but he doesn't say goodbye...
Faced with humiliation and unable to repay debts, Emma eventually commits suicide by poisoning.
Bovary learned the ins and outs of his wife's belongings (Leon's letter, Rodolph's letter), and it wasn't long before he died in his garden.
If Madame Bovary died of a thousand arrows piercing the heart, Bovary died of all thoughts.
A family is broken, and their children are orphaned.
"Madame Bovary is me."
What makes you unhappy?
And what causes you pain?
Emma also asked herself this question, but because she was lost in life, she couldn't find the answer.
She also thought about changing her past mistakes and returning to the family, but unfortunately, every time at this time, seeing her husband's boring and ignorant appearance, she dispelled the idea of changing her mind and blamed her misfortune on him.
For love and understanding, Madame Bovary worked hard, but unfortunately did not meet a man who understood her, and she did not read herself.
In his youth, Flaubert was also uninhibited, and later suffered from epilepsy and began to live another life, quiet, self-disciplined, devoted to literary careers, and never married.
The book "Madame Bovary" took him four years to become immortal, and the writer Su Tong regarded this literary masterpiece as "an encyclopedia containing human weaknesses".
Flaubert once confessed to a friend: "Madame Bovary is me." ”
Literature is a mirror that illuminates the reader's heart. Literature is also a lamp that illuminates the reader's heart.
Simplicity, rebellion, romance, vanity, hypocrisy, selfishness, shrewdness, passion, unwillingness to be mediocre, desire for love, these complex personalities of Madame Bovary, are not also more or less reflected in all the men and women in the world?
From the point of view of human nature, everyone is Madame Bovary, at least part of Madame Bovary.
In the face of life and marriage, everyone is like this:
On the one hand, he likes safe, stable, and ordinary days, and at the same time, he yearns for exploration, unknown, and passionate adventures.
When we slowly understand ourselves, know how to control our desires, and know how to balance the contradictory desires of our hearts, we can avoid madame Bovary-style tragedies.
Author | Jiang Xu, a post-80s woman, cooked characters to cure hunger and borrowed a pen to draw a heart.
Image | Stills of "Madame Bovary" (if there is any infringement, please contact to delete)