![]() ![]() ![]() When he abandoned her, she became seriously ill. None of Bovary's efforts to please her were successful, and she did not value or understand his devoted love for her.įinally Emma had an adulterous affair with Rodolphe, a local landowner. She was negligent of her duties as a wife and mother. After Leon left the town in order to attend law school, Emma's boredom and frustration became more intense. ![]() ![]() Emma's unhappiness continued, and she began to have romantic yearnings toward Leon, a young law clerk. As a result of her dissatisfaction she became ill.įor the sake of her health the Bovarys moved to a new town, where their daughter was born. For a while Emma was excited and pleased by her marriage, but because of her superficial romantic ideals she was soon bored and disillusioned by her new life. Upon his wife's death, Bovary married an attractive young woman named Emma Roualt, the daughter of one of his patients. He made a marriage of convenience with a woman older than himself. Then, without missing a beat, she switches to smug, cynical satisfaction, as Rudolf admires the letter and congratulates himself on his close escape.Charles Bovary, the only son of a middle-class family, became a doctor and set up his practice in a rural village. In a swoony, sighing voice full of noble suffering, Jackson reads his flowery letter of tears and regret, saying he loves her too much to ruin her life and her reputation. To Rudolf, Emma is just one in a long series of conquests, and he gets cold feet at the thought of being permanently responsible for her welfare and that of her child. Jackson is especially outstanding in the scene which takes place the night before Emma plans to run off with her lover, Rudolf. Emma's unrealistic dreams (she yearns for a perfect, romantic love that will sweep her away into perpetual bliss) lead her into one affair after another, and then to financial ruin and suicide. Her reading perfectly captures the restlessness of Emma Bovary, a character perpetually dissatisfied with her solid, steady husband and bourgeois life in provincial 19th-century France. Glenda Jackson hits the mark in this superb narration of Flaubert's classic novel. ![]()
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