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oh, madame bovary, you are such a fool. flaubert presents her with such sympathy, as overt critique is hardly necessary. the boredom you can sympathize with mixed with egotism led to her foolishness for believing she deserved "more", while failing to appreciate that she already had more than what she was searching for. searching for romance she overlooked love, and she lost all of life's comforts trying to attain luxuries.
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I started this novel as research for my costume design MFA thesis, and the descriptions of clothes are gorgeous as expected, but I ended up just reading it for fun because the characters and story were so compelling. This had been on my list for awhile because I have a special place in my heart for banned books, and now I heartily recommend it.
The story of Madame Bovary is not particularly unusual: the story of a French bourgeois woman who keeps taking lovers and getting into debt. The writing, however, is worth remembering. Even in translation, Flaubert's writing is notable: the images he employs are great. I wish I could have read it in the original French.
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