of everyday life. Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, dissatisfied with

their lives pursued their dreams of ecstasy and love through reading.

At the beginning of both novels Anna Karenina and Emma Bovary made

active decisions about their future although these decisions were not

always rational. As their lives started to disintegrate Emma and Anna

sought to live out their dreams and fantasies through reading. Reading

served as morphine allowing them to escape the pain of everyday life,

but reading like morphine closed them off from the rest of the world

preventing them from making rational decisions. It was Anna and Emma's

loss of reasoning and isolation that propelled them toward their

Emma at the beginning of the novel was someone who made

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

pleasure in reading, that is to say in following the reflection in

to remain content with the ordinariness of her life: her marriage to

forces them to become dissatisfied and bored with the ordinary

fantasies through reading novels which serve as palliatives for their

opulence that her novels bespoke, and she spent vast sums of money to

other people's lives. She was to eager to live herself. When she read

shop. She new the dress of the latest fashions and the addresses of

undertaken partially to fulfill the fantasies of the novels she read.

to save their relationship or deal with her divorce with Karenin. Anna

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

betrayed her; and she even wished for a catastrophe that would bring

consequences caught up with her latter in the novel she secluded

first nights in the theater, horse races and soirees; she was

Anna Karenina. But both Anna and Emma's reason is so distorted by the

she was very beautiful not because of her elegance and unassuming

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