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For Emma’s character, entering into a marriage with Charles Bovary was the start of a disappointing, restrictive, and unhappy domestic life.

She was raised on romantic novels and these novels become a main source of attraction for her character as she becomes obsessed with romantic clichés rather than the man she married to be her husband, Charles Bovary. Emma represents the modern perception of the bored, neglected housewife that is dying to escape the banalities of her overbearing society she resides within. Her character is romantic, willful, impulsive, idealistic, and passionate. Throughout Flaubert’s novel, Emma can be identified as the anti-heroine, and she is an easily relatable character among most modern readers. This essay will portray how Emma Bovary is a character molded by and against the societal world around her. Emma Bovary challenges the traditional cultural values during the nineteenth century such as consumerism, masculinity, social mobility, and most importantly, marriage to create a satire of the imperfect and oppressive society of which she is a product and a prisoner. Her struggle to circumvent and defeat social roles reflects a cultural and a subjective critique of class and gender boundaries, and her unwillingness to accept the cliché’s of the nineteenth century housewife represents her defiance. Emma Bovary, the novel’s anti-heroine, uses deviant behavior and deliberate acts of indiscretion to abandon a lifestyle imposed on her by a domineering patriarchal society. This novel portrays how a woman’s provincial middle-class life becomes an expansive commentary on gender, class, and social rules during the nineteenth-century France. French writer Gustave Flaubert’s debut novel, Madame Bovary, was first published in 1857.