Madama Bovary & Anna Karenina
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 …
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…Emma's
characters. It is Anna and Emma's reading of novels which allows them
to abandon their husbands and pursue their fantasies both in life and
in their minds. It is reading which prevents them from using reason to
correct their troubles. It is reading which distorts their reality and
forces them to become dissatisfied and bored with the ordinary
pleasures of life. Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary are books
ironically about the dangers of reading.
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