Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of Provincial life.
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Flaubert\'s erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857.
But even her affairs bring her disappointment and devastating consequences.
An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery.
Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of Provincial life