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Reading provides an escape for people from the ordinariness of everyday life. Madame Bovary dissatisfied with her life pursued her dreams of ecstasy and love through reading. At the beginning of the novels Emma Bovary made active decisions about her future although these decisions were not always rational. As her life started to disintegrate Emma sought to live out her dreams and fantasies through reading. Reading served as morphine allowing them to escape the pain of everyday life, but reading like morphine closed her off from the rest of the world Preventing her from making rational decisions. It was Emma's loss of reasoning and isolation that propelled her toward her downfall. 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.
Approximate Word count = 667
Approximate Pages = 2.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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