Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

Throughout life, it is safe to say that on occasion, everyone imagines what his or her lives might be like in a fairy tale, where everything comes together, and true happiness is attained. With true happiness, true love would often transpire. This love would be unconditional, meaning that it would be affective under all circumstances. In Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, the main character, Emma Bovary, truly believed that her real life would turn out like a fairy tale, with she finding the perfect husband, and generally living the “perfect life.” She also felt that she too would attain a love as strong and romantic as in her readings. More often than not, someone with this mentality will never realize this dream. In the novel, Emma’s romantic expectations cause her to grow bored and depressed when she compares her fantasies to the reality of her marriage with Charles Bovary. As a result, it is very evident that Emma’s life was destined to fail. This is due to her incapability of expressing unconditional love, her vivid imagination causing change for the worse, and chiefly because of her striving to live a romantic’s life. First of all, it is easily seen that Emma cannot devote her heart to any one man in