Emma’S Allusions

Throughout the novel Madam Bovary, we are introduced to a very whimsical, passionate woman named Emma. Emma is very lost in her dream world where love overrides her priorities. She initially marries a man, Charles, to whom she was struck deeply in love by. However, she finds herself dissatisfied on her wedding night. Emma dreams of a life where she wakes up fanatically involved with a man who is flawless, where in fact she wakes up next to her husband Charles who has turned into an irritation to her eyes. Instead of making an effort to be happy with Charles, Emma transfers her fantasies and allusions to other men that can take her mind of f of her disappointing life. Emma gets a taste of the rich and luxurious lifestyle when she enters a ball which opens her eyes up even more to the slob that she has married and makes her unhappy. Emma is lost in her allusions and fantasies when she in actuality her marriage and family lifestyle is anything but a dream come true.

Every girl has her own dreams and aspirations when it comes to her future and similarly that is the case with Emma Bovary. Emma spends her free time reading and living within various romanticized novels. She is pondered about a romantically filled life with a man that she is deeply in love with and finds that first off with Charles. Before their wedding she has unconditional love for him. However things start to shift when her wedding is rapidly approaching. On her wedding night Emma realizes that this is not the life that she wants; Charles is not the man she has long dreamt about. One can see that Charles is the one loving Emma whole heartedly and Emma is pulling away, detaching herself from her upsetting marriage. Ultimately when she is on her death bed, she looks into Charles’ eyes and realizes what she had not seen for so long, the man that she truly loved because her desires took over her life.

In order to keep herself happy as well as maintain the marriage that she had committed herself to, Emma turns to other men to fulfill her hopes and dreams. She meets LÐ"©on Dupuis with whom she shares a variety of interests with and becomes infatuated. She meets Rodolphe Boulanger, a wealthy man that seduces Emma, distracting her from her own reality. She gets involved with Rodolphe until he leaves and thereafter is heartbroken again because she feels hopeless with her surroundings and circumstances. After being with