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Is Emma Bovary a victim or an idiot? Flaubert seems to be saying both. He is brutal with his characters and makes fun of their middle class ways and cliched speech, but he does treat Emma with a certain amount of understanding. In the end, we realize she is delusional but also trapped as a female with higher aspirations and no real way to fulfill them. Men are her only option and they all prove to be scoundrels. Except, of course, for Charles who is one of the biggest losers in all of literary
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