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Love vs. Passion in Madame Bovary
Title: Love vs. Passion in Madame Bovary
Category: Literature / Novels
Details: Words: 676 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Love vs. Passion in Madame Bovary
In an ideal world, like the one Emma Bovary yearns for in the book Madame
Bovary, romantic relationships are based on the principle that the two
participants are madly in love with each other. But in the world Gustave Flaubert paints in his book, as in the real world, passion and personal gain are the only reasons people enter into a relationship.
Before meeting Emma, Charles Bovary weds a much older woman. He
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…showed last 75 words of 676 total…the money that might have saved her life. The only one that does mourn is
Charles, her devoted husband. But for the most part, all he laments about is her beauty. Once he is out of mourning, he sees that he is broke, and promptly dies. The relationships in Madame Bovary are numerous and varied in their reasons, but they all share in common the fact that love was not the driving factor behind them.
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