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Madame Bovary' brings Emma's passionate world to life

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 20000206
Author:JOANNE WEINTRAUB

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'Madame Bovary' brings Emma's passionate world to life

By JOANNE WEINTRAUB

of the Journal Sentinel staff

Sunday, February 6, 2000

More than a century before Betty Friedan wrote "The Feminine Mystique," Gustave Flaubert imagined a passionate, ambitious woman who couldn't endure a life bounded by four walls.

In "Madame Bovary" (8 tonight and Feb. 13, PBS), Flaubert created one of literature's least likable heroines and one of its most poignant. With all Emma Bovary's ardent self-absorption and insatiable materialism, her fate still breaks your heart.

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