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Essay / Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert - 526
Madame Bovary is a novel written by Gustave Flaubert in 1856. It introduces us to the journey and life of an extremely complex character, Emma Bovary, who was the wife of a doctor. Emma had adulterous relationships and lived beyond her means to escape the banality and emptiness of her life. Madame Bovary later became a romantic and dramatic film in 1949. It was written by Robert Ardrey and directed by Vincente Minnelli. In the film, the figure of Emma Bovary as a character in the novel provokes cheers of approval and howls of indignation while Gustave Flaubert attempts to prove that he has not written an indecent novel. In order to prove that he has written a moral tale, he decides to tell the story of the beautiful Emma Bovary, an adulterous woman who destroyed the lives of everyone she came into contact with. In Madame Bovary, the novel and Madame Bovary, the film are almost equal compared to other novel and film adaptations which are always totally different. However, the novel gives a better version of what actually happens compared to the film version. The scenario is t...