Madama Bovary & Anna Karenina 2

A detailed Summary of Madama Bovary & Anna Karenina 2

Reading provides an escape for people from the ordinariness

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

about their separation, since she did not have the courage to take any

ironically about the dangers of reading.

She blamed Leon for her disappointed hopes, as though he had

received good notices in the foreign papers and periodicals they

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

But Anna like Emma has a defect in her reasoning, she has an inability

living in fantasy, and is precisely because they are aware of reality

country estate was lavish but for Anna it was a lonely place.

She devoured without skipping a word, every article about

like Emma became so trapped in her fantasy world she was unable to

He felt that he had to have another look at her- not because

Approximate Word count = 1648
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English

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