"Madame Bovary": Women who can consciously resist temptation are more in control of their lives

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Gustave ▪ Flaubert, a famous French writer. Flaubert was born in December 1821 in Rouen, France, to a family of traditional doctors. Since childhood, Flaubert has loved literature and read a lot of famous works, which has played a certain role in laying the foundation for his future literary path. As a shy and shy man, Flaubert never married in his life, but his love life was still colorful.

Alyssa ▪ Schlesinger, Madame Foucault, Louise ▪ Gouley, Princess Mathilde and Julie Ehrbel ▪ were five important women in Flaubert's life. The interaction with them has enabled Flaubert to have an in-depth understanding of women's emotional world, attitude, temperament, and taste in life. After years of observation, precipitation, contemplation and collation, Flaubert completed the masterpiece "Madame Bovary", which depicts women's tragedies and joys.

Between 1856 and 1857, Madame Bovary was serialized in the ParisIan magazine. As soon as the work was published, it caused a sensation in the entire literary world and caused an uproar in society. French judicial authorities accused the novel of "desecration and desecration of religion" and prosecuted the author. In the end, Flaubert came to court for trial, and the case ended with a "verdict of acquittal". This vigorous farce made flaubert, who was lonely and reclusive in the countryside, famous and prominent, and thus established a prominent position and excellent reputation in the history of literature.

Legend has it that when someone once asked who was the prototype of Madame Bovary, Flaubert replied: "Madame Bovary is myself." This shows how deeply Flaubert invested in this figure and sober criticism. The social root of Emma's character towards destruction has also become the entry point for writers to reflect the social development from point to point.

The daughter of the peasant family, Emma, who is beautiful and talented, has received an aristocratic education in the monastery, read many romantic novels, and is full of ardent yearning for beautiful love. After the village doctor Charlie ▪ Bovary cured of his father's illness, Emma married Charlie ▪ Bovary with great anticipation. After marriage, Emma could not accept her husband's shortcomings, tired of a peaceful life, and turned to the pursuit of legendary love.

Emma's first lover was a morally corrupt squire, and the second lover was a cowardly and selfish clerk. Her unchaste behavior did not bring happiness, but created an opportunity for speculative businessmen. In order to obtain outward beauty and enjoy a luxurious life, Emma is heavily indebted and destitute, exploited by loan sharks but unable to repay the arrears.

In the end, Emma's debts accumulated like a mountain, and she lost the family property that her husband had worked so hard to accumulate, and her lover refused to lend a helping hand when she saw him falling. Desperate and desperate, Emma had to take poison and commit suicide to end it all. Emma's death is a personal tragedy as well as a social tragedy.

Dishonesty, insatiable greed, superficial vanity, are the main reasons for Emma's self-exile and self-inflicted evil consequences. The husband's neglect of care and communication, and the lack of strict management of money lenders by social financial institutions are all social reasons that put Emma on the road to extinction.

Flaubert created the story of Emma, on the one hand, to reflect the customs and customs of 19th-century French society, on the other hand, to criticize the greed and depravity of women, hoping that the majority of women would take it as a warning, stay away from temptation and clean themselves, and maintain piety for love and marriage.

Of course, the emergence of Madame Bovary also opened a channel for us to understand the characteristics of Flaubert's literary creation. In Flaubert's view, literary creation does not have to resort to bizarre plots and fabricated stories, and it is still possible to find themes worth describing from ordinary daily life.

Flaubert believed that the power of literature lies not in the story itself, but in how the author describes, narrates and processes it, so that there are no inferior or noble subjects in literature. Rural villagers, like high-ranking officials and princes, are typical objects that can be created in art.

As a writer who was strict with his artistic creation, Flaubert was never in a hurry to publish his works. Among them, "The Temptation of St. Anthony" changed its draft three times, which lasted 25 years; "Emotional Education" was 24 years away from the first draft to the final draft, except for the title that has not changed, the others have been completely unrecognizable.

There is no desire for fame and fortune, nor does it need to rely on writing as a living for Flaubert, all that has been diligently pursued is beauty. With a "religious devotion" to beauty, he relentlessly pursued artistic "perfection." Because of this, although Flaubert published a small number of works, each one was carefully crafted and painstakingly thought out.

Flaubert proved with the help of his own artistic practice that the skilled artist can achieve the purpose of criticizing reality through the combination of characteristic details and events he chooses, without necessarily being lyrical.

This method of writing, which distanced the author from the work, with its indifferent and objective style, had a major impact on the development of French literature in the later 20th century, so Flaubert rose to fame in the 20th century and was regarded as a pioneer of modernist art. To this day, Flaubert's followers still read his works, trying to find clues to the path to extraordinary literature.