"Madame Bovary", apparently a conventional story of adultery, manages to become a deep analysis of humanity and, specifically, an attack on the dullness and disappointments of bourgeois life. Emma Bovary, her imagination full of romantic illusions about love and passion, runs into
with the reality of a tasteless marriage that suffocates her. Then he looks for the sensations and emotions, which he believes exist because he has read them in books,
through a series of love affairs. What she sees and feels at first as great passions, she will later see are not really much more interesting than her boring married life.
Gustave Flaubert reflects with great
I hit the tragedy of this character. "Madame Bovary" has
turned out to be a constant reference work, to the point of being considered a masterpiece of realism.