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Emma at the beginning of the novel was someone who made
active decisions about what she wanted. She saw herself as the master
of her destiny. Her affair with Rudolphe was made after her decision
to live out her fantasies and escape the ordinariness of her life and
her marriage to Charles. Emma's active decisions though were based
increasingly as the novel progresses on her fantasies. The lechery to
which she falls victim is a …
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…Emma's
characters. It is Anna and Emma's reading of novels which allows them
to abandon their husbands and pursue their fantasies both in life and
in their minds. It is reading which prevents them from using reason to
correct their troubles. It is reading which distorts their reality and
forces them to become dissatisfied and bored with the ordinary
pleasures of life. Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary are books
ironically about the dangers of reading.
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