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...an A Critical Analysis of the Character “Madame Bovary” Of the Novel Madame Bovary By Gustave Flaubert The character of Madame Bovary consists of many different components. At first Emma Bovary seems content and unassuming. She doesn’t question anything done, and is very easy to please. As the first nine chapters progress, Emma grows uneasy and upset. She stops taking care of her house and home, leaving her husband to wonder what the problem is. After she witnesses the lavish lifestyle that is completely different from her own, in anger, Madame Bovary loses all love and respect for herself, her husband, her home, and slowly descends into a deep depression. When Monsieur Bovary first met Emma Rouault she was living and taking care of her sick father in Les Bertaux. She loved her father and worked hard to take care of him and their house. Emma Rouault also had a confidence about herself, “ . . . she had an open gaze that met yours with fearless candor” (Flaubert, 858). This openness attracted the then married Monsieur Bovary. He had never encountered a woman like her before, and he spent time with her even after he was done taking care of her father, “ . . . he went back the very next day, then twice a week Let’s be Real According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term realism can be defined as, “an inclination or attachment to what is real; tendency to regard things as they really are; any view or system contrasted with idealism.” In literature, realism is an approach that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity. It is most often associated with the literary movement arising in Fra...