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Madame Bovary Madame Bovary “The tragic flaws of Madame Bovary” Bovarysme is a psychological condition in which one deludes themselves into what they are, and to what is life’s potential for them. And bovaryistic is an appropriate adjective to use when discussing Emma Bovary, the main character in Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary. Emma’s story is one of a woman, dissatisfied with her marriage that turns to other men for affairs, goes into debt, and eventually commits suicide. On the surface, this novel appears very simple yet ceases to be when one considers exactly why Emma behaved the way she did in Madame Bovary. Her tragic flaw was bovarysme but Emma behaved the way she did for several separate but connecting issues: she was a victim of her own romantic ideals, she lived during the ‘bourgeois century’, and her simply being a women. Emma fell victim to her own romanticism at a very young age. She was raised in a convent and her only ideas of love and marriage were from what she learned while reading her romantic novels. The problem with her reading these romantic novels is that because she had led a very sheltered madame, bovary, emma, life, romantic, ideals, emma’s, one, very, herself, charles, marriage, women, time, things, novels, world, own, novel, bourgeois, begins, way, nothing, love, eventually, about, while, thought, system, should, men, high, expectations, class, ‘bourgeois