Guide to France Madame Bovary Style

Guide to France Madame Bovary Style

All of Rouen

Emma starts to find excuses twoards the end of the book to constantly see Léon. She makes up lie after lie so that she can see him almost every day. Not only does the guilt of cheating on her loving husband make her feel bad, but she is also responsible for her family's incredibly large debt. She soon realizes that her debts are too much when she needs a large amount of money and no one can help her. This is the action that leads to the closing action.

"She was now living in a state of profound and constant lassitude. She often received writs, documents bearing official stamps, but she scarcely even looked at them. She wished she could stop living entirely, or sleep continuously." (Chapter 6 Part 3)

• This quote also foreshadows what is going to happen with Emma on a larger scale

• This quote really puts perspective on how unhappy she is and the author really uses pathos and makes the reader feel the same monotony that he depicts Emma as having

"Madame Bovary, as she listened, was astonished at being so old; these things reappearing seemed to enlarge her existence; they created a kind of sentimental infinity for her to visit in her mind." (Chapter 1 Part 3)

• The author uses her past experiences to foreshadow the end of the book and because that she is growing older, signifying near death or the end of the book, that the next outcome of one of Emma's affairs will be the end of it

Lucia di Lammermoor, an Opera in Rouen

• This quote explains that even after being through so many bad things resulting from her afairs that she still finds it intriguing

Once Roudolphe leaves Emma she falls into a deep depression, again Charles jsut wants to make her happy so he takes some advice from another friend and takes her to the fairly large, well known city of Rouen. Ironically the opera just makes her fall into a deeper saddened state until she sees her former lover, Léon. He convinces her to stay and she loves the idea of being in the city with some one more interesting than her husband,Charles, who she just can´t seem to love.

Tostes

"His eagerness had turned into a routine; he embraced her at the same time every day. It was a habit like any other, a favourite pudding after the monotony of dinner." (Chapter 7 Part 1)

• This quote foreshadows that the regularity of the life style she is living will not be enough for her

Tostes is important because it is the first place in the story where Emma Bovary settles down with her new husband and realizes that she isn't has happy as she thought she would be when she first married. She soon starts to recognize the monotony of this little town and starts to sink into subtle depression that will carry on throughout the book.

• This also depicts Charles true love for his wife and that he in incredibly content being with Emma

Tostes Fun Facts

• Tostes is a commune in France

• Tostes is about 101 Km from Paris (one of Emma Bovarys Dream cities)

• Chateau Gillard is also 22 Km from Tostes which is also a very popular tourist destination

"Her heart was just like that: contact with the rich had left it smeared with something that would never fade away." (ch.8 part 1)

• Beginning of Emma's longing for a rich luxurious lifestyle

• This quote explains how the visit to the chateau contributed to her unsatisfactory feelings towards her life through out the book

La Vaubyessard Ball

The ball is where Emma gets her first taste of high class living and she completely falls in love with the idea of aristocracy and the luxuries that come with it.

Yonville-l’Abbaye

The Bovarys move to Yonville in hopes to make Emma happy. The town in slightly bigger that Tostes, meaning that its maybe the size of a regular town (more likely the size of Mariposa). During thief arrival Emma loses her beloved dog, we also discover that she is pregnant, adding to her problems. She soon becomes friends with a neighbor with similar interests, falls in love and is happy for awhile. Then he moves away and this is where we start to see a strong developing pattern. That every time Charles tries to make Emma happy or they move to a greater town that things just get in the way and she is just never happy or content.

"With her black hair, her large eyes, her straight nose, her gliding step, always silent now, did it not seem as if she passed through life almost without touching it, bearing on her brow the pale mark of a sublime destiny? She was so sad and so calm, so gentle and yet so shy, that by her side you felt under the spell of a frosty charm, just as you shiver in church at the scent of flowers mingling with the feel of cold marble. … But she was filled with lust, with rage, with hatred." (Chpt. 5 Part 2)

Fun Facts about Yonville

Not a real town

• It was most likely inspired by the village of Ry

• The author placed Yonville next to the city of Rouen, making Emma Bovary right out of the grasp of a lager city that she may of been content with

The Woods of Yonville

"Emma was just like any other mistress; and the charm of novelty, falling down slowly like a dress, exposed only the eternal monotony of passion, always the same forms and the same language. He did not distinguish, this man of such great expertise, the differences of sentiment beneath the sameness of their expression." ( Chapter 12, Part 2)

• This quotes is talking about Rodolphe's feelings for Emma

In the woods of Yonville a lot of things go down, during this period of time Charles starts to realize that Emma is really depressed, so he tries to find a way to make her happier. He thinks that horse back riding with a young rich aristocrat, Rodolphe Boulanger De La Huchette, that they have met in town together. What Charles doesn't know is that Rodolphe already has his sights set on Emma and wants her to be his new mistress. Emma tries to avoid the horseback riding but gives in due to the promise of new clothes. After a few weeks of horseback riding Emma and Rodolphe fall into a deep series of affairs, in which Emma constantly sneaks around and also comes into debt because of the "tokens of affection" she constantly buys Rodolphe.

• The author uses this piece of text to set up the end of Rodolphe and Emma's relationship and how detrimental it will be to Emma's mental heath because she is unaoidably becoming more attached than Rodolphe is to her

Les Berteaux Fun Facts

Les Berteaux

• Not really a place but a region in France

• It really is as boring as the book depicts it

Les Berteaux is the first place in the book where Emma and Charles meet, this is the start of the rising action in the book and it is the first time that we see the main character, Emma, happy. Les Berteaux is also where they get married and it becomes a huge ordeal in the town, most likely the biggest event in the town for the year. The author uses the towns unnecessary over excitement to give readers insight on Emma's way of thinking and in someways sets her character by using the people she has been with her entire life to place her in a lower class that she was never happy with.

• More interesting places to visit around Les Berteaux Would be, Toucy, Sementron, Parly, Moulins-sur-Ouanne, and Levis

"Emma would, on the contrary, have preferred to have a midnight wedding with torches, but old Rouault could not understand such an idea." (Chapter 2 Part 1)

• This quote comes from the end of chapter two and foreshadows Emma's unequal position as a woman in the 1800s in France

• This is an important idea that is continued throughout the book that contributes to Emma's continuous unhappiness.