Emma Bovary and Jane Eyre have one thing in common. They both pursue love. Even though this is common in both of them, they take completely different roads to achieve true love. Jane Eyre seems to try to pursue love but something always came up to stop that from happening. Emma Bovary, on the other hand, is never happy with the love she has and wants to pursue something that was quite impossible and only seen in romance novels.

Jane Eyre lived a really hard life. To me, Jane had the hardest life of all the females in the other novels. Her pursuit for love was actually for love itself. It wasn't anything materialistic, nor was it a physical attraction. She didn't find her love in romance novels. She just wanted to fall in love. However, since she didn't have anything to love, she had to look towards other things to love, which in this case is very sad:

To this crib I always took my doll; human beings must love something, and in the dearth or worthier objects of affection, I contrived

They were so completely lost in the possession of each other that they felt as though they were in their own house, where they would spend their whole lives together as eternally young newlyweds (Madame Bovary, 228).

While Jane was patient in finding her true love by simply waiting it, Emma was searching for it anywhere she could. She found the one guy that she had some common interest in and had an affair with him. However, this wasn't the first time she had an affair. It wasn't good enough for Emma to just have an affair with Leon. Once that relationship ended, she went searching for a new lover instead of going back to her loving husband, who truly adores her.

The first affair was the beginning of her end, however, nothing comes of it this first time. His name was Leon. Emma couldn't have been giddier to finally have a true lover, which, in reality, she already had but was too stubborn to realize it:

to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow (Jane Eyre, 28).

After working for Mr. Rochester for a while, Jane began to have some affection towards him, and vice versa. When Mr. Rochester would go out of town, she couldn't wait for his return:

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