Chapter 39: Madame Bovary

Soon, Charlie cured a mouth sore of a prominent marquis.

As a token of his appreciation to Charles, the Marquis invited Charles and his wife to his grange.

Emma went in a carriage. It was an Italian-style manor house with a large house and beautiful gardens.

Emma was fascinated by the marquis's luxurious grandeur, the elegant guests, and the bejeweled balls. A dashing viscount came to invite her to dance and made a deep impression on her.

After returning home, her temper grew worse and worse.

The beautiful clothes and satin shoes she wore to the ball, she reverently put them in the chest of drawers.

"Her heart, like them, has been in contact with wealth, and has added something that cannot be erased."

She became more and more disagreeable to her husband, and she became lazy, obedient and willful.

She was sick and became more and more unbearable with her present life, and she wished she could die and live in Paris.

Eventually, at Emma's request, they moved to town.

Life in the town is still boring, not much better than before, but there is a road to Paris.

By chance, Emma met Leon, who was a trainee at a lawyer's desk, and they talked very well when they first met.

They shared the same interests, and both loved travel and music, and they often chatted together, discussing romantic novels and contemporary plays, and constantly exchanging books and songs.

Monsieur Bovary was not surprised by his rare jealousy. During this time, Emma also gave birth to a daughter, White, to be fed by a carpenter's woman.

Leon sometimes accompanied her to see her daughter, and they grew closer, and Emma fell in love with Leon.

But her sense of morality made her feel guilty, and instead she was not with Leon, she cared about her children and family and went to church on time.

Tired of fruitless love and the cookie-cutter life, Leon began to yearn for the glitzy Paris, and he chose to leave the town and go to Paris to study law.

At parting, he and Emmayi parted, and both of them felt infinite melancholy.

After Leon left, the memory of Leon became the center of her depression, and she became depressed again.

Until, the landlord Rodolfo asked Dr. Bovary to bleed his groom......

He was a veteran of the Storm and Moon Field, about thirty-four years of age, with a rough disposition and a keen mind, who owned two estates, and had recently bought a manor house, earning more than fifteen thousand francs a year.

He saw that Emma was born to Peugeot, and when they first met, he had a bad idea to seduce her.

Rodolfo took advantage of the agricultural exhibition to approach Emma, act as her guide, confide in her, and disguise himself as a poor creature with no friends, no one to care about, and to the point of depression.

He said that as long as he could get someone who would treat him sincerely, he would overcome all difficulties to achieve his goal.

Together, they talked about the vulgarity of the hinterland, the suffocation of life, and the destruction of ideals......

After the exhibition, Emma couldn't forget about Rodolfo.

Rodolfo deliberately did not visit her until six weeks. Concerned about Emma's health, he lent her his horse to ride, and they went out into the wilderness together.

Emma eventually failed to resist Rodolfo's temptation and became his mistress, and they often had trysts with Dr. Bovary from him.

Soon, Emma's feelings develop to the point of fanaticism, and she asks Rodolph to take her away and elope with him.

However, Rodolfo is a duplicitous hypocrite.

He just had the ugly idea of playing with women and acting on the spot, and deceived Emma's feelings.

He promised to flee with her, but on the day he fled, he asked someone to give Emma a letter.

The letter said that it was not appropriate for either of them to run away, and that Emma would regret it one day. He didn't want to be the cause of her regrets; Besides, the world is cold, and it is not immune to insults if you flee there. Therefore, he is going to say goodbye to her love forever.

The letter also had water marks that Rodolfo had deliberately sprinkled, pretending to be his tears.

Emma was so angry that in the evening she saw Rodolph hurrying through Yongzhen in a carriage to find his mistress a female playwoman in Rouen, and Emma fainted on the spot.

After that, she had a serious illness. After she recovered from her illness, she wanted to change her past mistakes and live a new life.

However, another incident happened.

The pharmacist Haupai invited the Bovary couple to a play in Rouen.

In the theater, Emma meets Leon, a trainee who has been emotionally attracted to her in the past.

The seeds of love that they had buried in their hearts for many years sprouted again, and they ran to the dock to talk before they finished watching the play.

At this time, Leon was no longer a fledgling offspring, but a person with full social experience. As soon as they met, he wanted to possess Emma and tell her about the pain of parting.

When Emma talks about a serious illness that she almost died, Leon feigns sadness. He strongly urged Emma to stay for another day and watch the scene.

Dr. Bovary rushed back to Yongzhen for medical reasons, and Emma stayed. So she and Léon went together to visit the Cathedral of Rouen and took a horse-drawn carriage around the city.

In this way, Emma and Leon hooked up.

When Emma returns to Youngtown, she goes to Rouen to learn piano under the pretext that she is actually going to have a tryst with Leon.

Once again, Emma poured all her passion into Leon, indulging in unbridled pleasures.

She bought the most fashionable clothes and jewelry to decorate herself, and after spending all the money, she borrowed usury from merchants behind her husband's back.

However, Leon is tired of Emma.

Especially when he received a letter from his mother and a lawyer's advice, he decided to cut off contact with Emma.

Because of this ambiguous relationship, it will affect his future.

So, he began to avoid her.

At this time, Emma receives a summons from the court.

The merchant forced her to repay the debt, and the court gave Emma twenty-four hours to repay the entire loan of 8,000 francs, otherwise the family property would be mortgaged.

Emma had no choice but to ask Leon for help, but Leon tricked her into not being able to borrow money and ran away.

She went to borrow money from the lawyer Juyuman, but the old ghost took advantage of her impatience to take possession of her.

She walked away angrily.

In the end, she thought of going to Rodolfo for help, and Rodolfo openly said that he had no money.

Emma was humiliated and her heart was heavy.

When she came out of Rodolfo's house, she felt the wall shake and the ceiling press down on her.

When she got home, Emma swallowed arsenic.

She thought that in this way "all the deceit, the vileness and the innumerable desires that afflicted her, had nothing to do with her."

Dr. Bovary knelt beside her bedside, and Emma felt sorry for her husband. She said to him, "You are a good person. ”

In the end, she took one look at the child and left this world in agony.

In order to pay off his debts, Dr. Bovary sold all his possessions.

But when he rummaged through the drawers, he found his wife's love letters to and from Leon and a portrait of Rodolfo.

He was very sad, but he didn't blame Rodolfo, who was cowardly and kind, and he thought that "the wrong thing is fate".

Because of the blows, Bovary died soon after.

The daughter they left behind was sent to her grandmother's house, then to her aunt's house, and finally to a spinning mill where she worked as a child labourer.

This is how the story ends......

After reading "Madame Bovary", Li Tianran felt a lot.

After analyzing, Li Tianran believes that there are three main reasons for Emma's tragic fate:

1. Character determines fate, Emma takes what is described in novels and books as reality, and the reality that surrounds her as a nightmare, yearns for the love of the upper aristocratic society, and indulges in unrealistic fantasies, which is doomed to a tragic life.

2. The choice of marriage is too hasty, she doesn't know what she really wants love, she got married casually, wanted to change her fate through marriage, and only found out after marriage that her husband was not the person he wanted, so she was depressed, disappointed, depressed and red apricot out of the wall.

3. Emma doesn't know what love is, and she hasn't gotten real love. She has many unrealistic fantasies about love, and she hates a quiet life and instead pursues the love she wants, a love that she doesn't get in reality.

Madame Bovary, she is vain, she cheats, cheats, empties her husband's wallet, she is a scumbag who can no longer be a scumbag.

But it seems to be more than that.

The magic of literature is that it turns a person who has nothing to do with you into an acquaintance.

If Emma is your friend, you understand her grievances, you often hear her confide, you understand her, and she is not a simple stupid, bad and scumbag person who can describe her.

She hurt a lot of people, but this was not her intention, she was evil, but not pure evil, she was greedy and vain, but she also wanted to repent.

For the sake of ethereal pursuits and desires, she paid the price of her life.

But how innocent is the child? She is an incompetent mother, so she is ugly, selfish, and pathetic after all.

Everyone needs to have a back road, and a woman's back road is the woman herself, including your earning ability and independence ability, which must be quickly improved, so that you can gradually have a sense of security and no longer be afraid of a man's departure or stay.

Everyone needs security, but a truly lasting sense of security can only come from within you.

If you bloom, the breeze will come.

Fight for the love and life you want, instead of putting bets on others, and don't give others the opportunity to crush your own life.

People should have the ability to distinguish between illusion and reality, and they should broaden their horizons and enrich their minds more, rather than being immersed in illusory love imagination and unable to extricate themselves.

In the end, usury must not be touched, and we must not be driven by material desires to borrow usury.