Introduction

This story takes place in the early 1800's in the French countryside. The book was originally in French, but was translated into English. Gustave Flaubert,the author, was sickened with the French middle class he was born into. He believed them to be lazy, unconcerned, and selfish. Madame Bovary is about a self-centered, envious, and dramatic middle class French woman. Flaubert decided that to write about something he so sincerely hated would show his true creative writing ability. Although he was sickened with the French middle class, he forced himself to show people talking,thinking and acting as people do talk, think and act. He spent over five years writing the novel. At times, he spent one week writing and rewriting two pages of the novel. He took great care in writing Madame Bovary, more care than any novelist before him. The main character is a woman called Madame Emma Bovary. She is unsatisfied with her life, and bored with reality.She is married to a country doctor, named Charles Bovary.

dramatic /drəˈmætɪk/ adj. 戏剧性的

creative /krɪˈeɪtɪv/ adj. 创造性的 NrAtO+e3pdVIxuzaC+LtfbNl0STnfVP75YI2NvXbJ6WWPGocCtgmmukc+sR2RhXz