A-Z Challenge (Book-Madame Bovary)

Madame Bovary (1856) is the French writer Gustave Flaubert’s debut novel. The story focuses on a doctor’s wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. (Wikipedia)

I don’t know why, but in my mind when I think about this book, I compare it to Anna Karenina, maybe because they both had affairs and what it’s stated above «to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life». Anna did the same thing. Maybe she did not search to have an affair, but if she had that chance, she did it.

“Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,–a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.”

I liked the book, but of course, I didn’t agree with what she did. I read it just like you read a book, for my pleasure, knowing that it’s fiction, not real life.

When I read this quote, I think of all the men and women out there that want something more, want more passion in their life and search in so wrong places, they have affairs and begin living a double life.

I guess that books can hurt you in real life if they make you do bad things, for example when you read romantic novels, and then, you are no longer satisfied with your partner, because you want more passion in your life. Romantic books and movies can do harm if we don’t handle them carefully.

She was not living her life, but she lived the lives of the people she read, from that popular books she liked so much.

It’s such a waste of your life, to yearn for something more, not being ever satisfied with what you have.

Of course, I know that this is just a book, but for me, this is a lesson I can learn.

I learned to be satisfied with what I have and to live in the present, not dreaming about what I will accomplish or I will have in the future. This way I am happy and content. 🙂

She dreams about a life of luxuries and especially after she sees how other people live. And from this to having an affair with a rich man, who could give her passion and luxuries, it was just a step.

She cheats on her husband for 4 long years, without bothering to think that she could hurt him, she only thought of her feelings.

I will not spoil the end so that you will read the book. 🙂 It really is a great book, has a lot of lessons to learn, if you are willing to do so.

Madame Bovary, on Bookdepository

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And also, you can see my read books, on Goodreads, here.

“Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.»

“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”

“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright…Haven’t you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you’ve had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”

Books I’ve read with the letter M:

1. Maitreyi – Mircea Eliade
2. Mandela’s Way – Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage – Richard Stengel
3. Mara – Ioan Slavici
4. Marley and Me: Life and Love with The World’s Worst Dog – John Grogan
5. Martin Eden – Jack London
6. Mary Jones and Her Bible – Mark Hamby
7. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
8. Mont-Oriol – Guy de Maupassant
9. Momo – Michael Ende
10. The Mighty Miss Malone – Christopher Paul Curtis
11. Melocotones Helados – Espido Freire
12. Me Before You – Jojo Moyes
13. A Man Called Ove – Fredrick Backman
14. Marta Y Maria – Armando Palacio Valdes
15. Matilda – Roald Dahl
16. Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus – John Gray
17. Message in a Bottle – Nicholas Sparks
18. The Mighty Miss Malone – Christopher Paul Curtis
19. Mindy – June Strong

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