Foils in Literature

[cacian]

I somehow can't help but think of ''Lady 's Chatterley's Lover'' when I think of Bovary but that is me. I think differently.
The other thing I have to admit is that there is nothing liberating about Emma in Bovary. The way I look at it is that she was 'passed on' from one man to another and then let down by the very lovers she thought highly of. It tells me something about the society she lived in and reinforces the lack of emotional attachments the characters in Bovary seem to have been objected too. The exploits of Emma were purely sexual and nothing else came out of it and that is as far as I am concerned vacuous and not without consequences.
I could not help but notice the word OVARY in B/OVARY. Maybe that is another reason why I chose to focus on the word 'Madame' in contrast with a 'Madam' that runs a brothel.
Maybe Flaubert obsession for the 'juste word' was eventually fulfilled with the anagrams of 'Madame de Bovary' ie 'madam and ovary' and what is left are the letters 'E' 'DE' 'B' an anagram for BEDE/BEBE. Who knows.
That is my interpretations of things and of course anything goes when it comes to a story with a title it is open to suggestions and mine is as such.

One thing I do find fascinating about Madame de Bovary is that the heroine of the book is female called Emma and the writer is Flaubert a male. In contrast Jayne Eyre a female heroine to Bronte's sister a female writer or even Emma with Jane Austen.
The question is this:
Do male writers tend to fantasise their female lead characters with sexual subjectories for a deliverance of some kind a liberation of some sort take Lolita again Nabokov is a male writer.
It is just an observation worthy of making.

[Lokasenna]

I think differently.

I think we all know that by now.

Are you by any chance a follower of the Bible Code? Your habit of, shall we say, creatively re-interpreting the most mundane of details rather agrees with that particular kind of conspiracist philosophy.

...and if you are about to say something along the lines of the Venerable Bede having had something to do with either Madame Bovary or Lady Chatterly, I may have to vist considerable violence upon myself with a soup-spoon. Life just won't be worth living after that.

[Jack of Hearts]

Holy good frickin' cripes.

It's hard to imagine that assessment passing through the school system of your patrie, cacian. Are you sure you're French? For as awful as French schools are, they don't put up with such wishy-washy bs. They seem to demand a more sophisticated form of bs.

To say the novel is about sex/carnality displays a horrific comprehension of it. There is sex in it, and certainly a character driven by the concept of sexual conquest, but a) the sex is never described, it's left to implication and b) every instance of sexuality is used only to reinforce the central themes of the novel, which seems to be the consequences of (Emma's) being maladjusted to reality.

Actually, after critical analysis of the book, this reader has a new hypothesis: the central theme of Madame Bovary is just human sh*ttiness.

And no, you don't think differently. Nobody does. You just behave oddly on message boards-- a fact toward which this reader expresses no judgment.






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