active decisions about what she wanted. She saw herself as the master

of her destiny. Her affair with Rudolphe was made after her decision

to live out her fantasies and escape the ordinariness of her life and

her marriage to Charles. Emma's active decisions though were based

increasingly as the novel progresses on her fantasies. The lechery to

which she falls victim is a product of the debilitating adventures her

mind takes. These adventures are feed by the novels that she reads.

They were filled with love affairs, lovers, mistresses,

persecuted ladies fainting in lonely country houses, postriders killed

at every relay, horses ridden to death on every page, dark forests,

palpitating hearts, vows, sobs, tears and kisses, skiffs in the

moonlight, nightingales in thickets, and gentlemen brave as lions

gentle as lambs, virtuous as none really is, and always ready to

shed floods of tears.(Flaubert 31.)

Emma's already impaired reasoning and disappointing marriage

to Charles caused Emma to withdraw into reading books, she fashioning

herself a life based not in reality but in fantasy.

is critical to realize that both Anna and Emma are aware that they are

life. They allowed her to pursue her dreams of love, affairs, and

has aroused in the reader when she mends Dolly and Oblonskys marriage.

nor is it the primary reason they kill themselves. But their use of

grace which was evident in her whole figure but because their was

provide a fantasy life when her own life was crumbling around her.

Seryozha and shunned by society turned to morphine and reading to

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Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)