Advantages: A great French classic Disadvantages: An unappealing heroine from my male viewpoint
MadameBovary ? Gustave Flaubert
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Emma Bovary is bored. She?s bored with her humdrum life; married to a boring and mediocre doctor she lives under the burden that people judge her only relative to her husband and she struggles to find her own identity. She fills her empty days reading chick-lit romance novels and shopping before embarking on a string of adulterous affairs trying to find a man who will love her and appreciate her as a person in her own right.
So far, so Desperate Housewives. The bookshop shelves are filled with this kind chick-lit stuff, so what makes this book stand out? Well firstly it was written by a man, and a Frenchman by the by, and secondly it was written in 1857.
MadameBovary was the first novel published by Gustave Flaubert and to say it caused something ...
Advantages: Good characterisation Disadvantages: Characters have become rather dated
) and a yellow hat. Further investigation revealed that this was no ordinary hat for it, too, was made of leather and it had an attractive floral band around it. The man was wearing socks which were described as "serpent like" and a tie which reminded her of a carpet. So the description continued becoming more detailed and elaborate by the second. It was all I could do not to collapse into hysterical laughter as Louise demonstrated the depths of her French vocabulary. As I review "MadameBovary" it should become apparent why this episode sprang to mind when I put pen to paper to write this piece.
When it was published in 1857, "MadameBovary" caused something of a sensation. It's author, Gustav Flaubert, received widespread condemnation for what was deemed an immoral novel and there were even attempts to prosecute. However, it is widely held, now ...
Advantages: Wonderful acting and costumes. Disadvantages: Too many sex scenes. Not neccesarily family viewing.
Gustave Flaubert's novel is brought to life in this BBC Drama:
Emma Bovary is a newly married woman who quickly becomes bored of her married life when she realises her husband isn't a 'romantic' like she is and soon begins affairs behind the doctors back. Really MadameBovary is a drama queen who's mind is outside of reality.
Emma marries the staid, respectable newly widowed Dr Bovary and soon starts to feel "buried" alive by the dull provincial lifestyle of a doctors wife.As she dreams of pink ballgowns and silk gloves her husband is happy to follow everyday routine.
The acting is superb, Frances O'Connor (MadameBovary) does not resort to a hysterical form of acting for this character and manages to act out the personality of a girl with thoughts of romance and magic, not giving a thought about reality.
Hugh Bonneville in ...
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