Madame Bovary Comparison - 1166 Words

In Flauberts Madame Bovary, there are many symbols and details about windows and the wedding. Throughout the novel Emma Bovary, Charles wife, is trapped inside a life that she does not long to have. Emma had fantasies of how she wanted her life to be so she rushes into marriage hoping to fulfill that desire but she becomes trapped in marriage as her dreams are not coming out to what she hoped for. Life is not just about being married to satisfy those wishes, you also have to be able to find those desires within the man you are marrying which Emma did not do. Charles was not the man she could have to fulfill her romantic desires. The windows are a symbol to demonstrate Emmas entrapment. She is always staring out of the†¦show more content†¦The way he seduces her is the same as you would see in a film or read in a book which shows her fantasies were magical based. Then again, Emma is in a dress at her funeral. The dress is supposed to symbolize purity but should not be described in that manner because of Emmas affairs. When Charles is staring at her in her dress as she lay in bed, he says that she is lost beneath her dress. This symbolizes that the dress could be holding her back or weighing her down such as suffocating her just as she was in her marriage. She was worn down by her marriage and wanted a way out of the suffocating entrapment. The dried wedding bouquet is also a symbol related to the wedding. Emma finds Charles first and deceased wife, Heloises, bouquet on the desk near the window. Charles then just picks them up and throws them away. This shows how women were portrayed as flowers being easily replaced. A promise is obtained within the flowers about the dreams marriage should have given her according to her dreams. Emma begins to think about her flowers and what would happen to them if she were to die. Emma bringing up death in the beginning of the novel foreshadows the events later on in the novel when she dies. Emma even throws her own bouquet in the fire after pricking her finger on the wire of that bouquet. Emma burning her bouquet could be seen as a way toShow MoreRelated A Comparison between Madame Bovary and The Awakening Essay1169 Words   |  5 PagesSimilarities Between Madame Bovary and The Awakening      Ã‚   Centuries ago, in France, Gustave Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary. In 1899, Kate Chopin wrote The Awakening. The years cannot separate the books, and the definite similarities that the two show. Madame Bovary is the story of a woman who is not content with her life, and searches for ways to get away from the torture she lives everyday. 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