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* MsImagination: Oh, Emma! She was a victim of this trope, being an intelligent and beautiful woman with vivid imagination who lacked common sense. She imagined herself as an aristocrat or at least a noble city dweller. She was a farmer's daughter who married a stupid middle class doctor and they live in a small town. She suffers terribly, and her family even more so.
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* MsImagination: Oh, Emma! She was a victim of this trope, being an intelligent and beautiful woman with vivid imagination who lacked common sense. She imagined herself as an aristocrat or at least a noble city dweller. She was a farmer's daughter who married a stupid middle class an unimagniative and oafish middle-class doctor and they live in a small town. She suffers terribly, and her family even more so.
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* PretentiousLatinMotto: One is put onto the [[spoiler: Emma’s tomb]] by Homais. He has racked his brains to come up with ''Sta Viator amabilem conjugem calcas''. The great irony is that in spite of the epitaph being in Latin, it's fairly conventional and unimaginative, something Emma would have loathed.
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* PretentiousLatinMotto: One is put onto the [[spoiler: Emma’s tomb]] by Homais. He has racked his brains to come up with ''Sta Viator amabilem conjugem calcas''.calcas''[[labelnote:Translation]]"Stand in the footsteps of a lovely companion"[[/labelnote]]. The great irony is that in spite of the epitaph being in Latin, it's fairly conventional and unimaginative, something Emma would have loathed.
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Distracted By The Luxury is more about others giving the person goodies as opposed to their buying it themselves.
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* DistractedByTheLuxury: Emma buys a lot of [[EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry jewels]], [[PimpedOutDress dresses]], and [[PrettyInMink furs]] she can't afford to try to keep her mind off her unhappiness.
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* LoanShark: Thanks to being DistractedByTheLuxury, see above.
* ManipulativeBastard: Lheureux, who goads Emma into the aforementioned DistractedByTheLuxury to eventually take control over all of Charles' estate.
* ManipulativeBastard: Lheureux, who goads Emma into the aforementioned DistractedByTheLuxury to eventually take control over all of Charles' estate.
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* LoanShark: Thanks to being DistractedByTheLuxury, see above.
too much Retail Therapy (see below).
* ManipulativeBastard: Lheureux, who goads Emma into the aforementionedDistractedByTheLuxury Retail Therapy to eventually take control over all of Charles' estate.
* ManipulativeBastard: Lheureux, who goads Emma into the aforementioned
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* RetailTherapy: Emma buys a lot of [[EverythingsSparklyWithJewelry jewels]], [[PimpedOutDress dresses]], and [[PrettyInMink furs]] she can't afford to try to keep her mind off her unhappiness.
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!! ''Madame Bovary'' contains Examples of:
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** Charles Bovary (and later Emma, when she takes his name) has a name that, even in story, clearly evokes cattle (''boeuf'' in French), and not to their benefit.
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** Charles Bovary (and later Emma, when she takes his name) has a name that, even in story, clearly evokes cattle (''boeuf'' in French), and not to their benefit.credit.
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Misuse: Charles is not lucky like The Fool, he is just stupid.
* TheDitz: Charles is pretty much established as this from the get-go. His opening scene, which recounts his schooldays, ends with him in the corner wearing the dunce cap.
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* TheFool: Charles is pretty much established as this from the get-go. His opening scene, which recounts his schooldays, ends with him in the corner wearing the dunce cap.
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%%* DeathByDespair: Charles' first wife.
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%%* DrivenToSuicide: Because it's so ''romantic''...
%%* ExtremeDoormat: Charles for Emma, so very much. She despises him for it.
%%* ExtremeDoormat: Charles for Emma, so very much. She despises him for it.
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%%* PurpleProse: An exceptionally well done example.
%%* PurpleProse: An exceptionally well done example.
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Emma commits suicide, Charles follows her into the grave soon afterwards and all their wealth is consumed by debts, leaving their daughter in the hands of a poor relative.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Emma commits suicide, Charles follows her into the grave soon afterwards and all their wealth is consumed by debts, leaving their daughter in the hands of a poor relative.relative who sends her to work in a cotton factory.]]
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** Emma attempts to have a lover outside of her marriage, but the man she attempts to woo doesn't have time to indulge in her fantasies, and she ends up miserable.
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** Emma attempts to have a lover outside of her marriage, but the man she attempts Rodolphe isn’t inclined to woo doesn't have time to indulge in run away with her fantasies, while Leon just can’t live up to her dreams, and she ends up miserable.
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Redirect and trivia
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* GenreLaunch: As mentioned above, it also led to the beginning of literary Modernism.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Really brought home at [[spoiler: Emma's death scene.]] She doesn't want to see her husband, her child, or even a crucifix... but she asks for a mirror to stare at her own reflection.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Really brought home at [[spoiler: Emma's death scene.]] She doesn't want to see her husband, husband or her child, or even a crucifix... child but after the priest anoints her in the Last Unction ritual ... she asks for a mirror to stare at her own reflection.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Emma wants the world to be like romance novels, and acts as if it is. This ends up leading to her ruin, since she's actually in a very cynical SpiritualAntithesis to them:
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* WrongGenreSavvy: Emma wants the world to [[ThinksLikeARomanceNovel be like romance novels, novels]], and acts as if it is. This ends up leading to her ruin, since she's actually in a very cynical SpiritualAntithesis to them:
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* ConsummateLiar: Emma becomes one during [[spoiler: her tryst with Leon]], when it becomes ''a mania, a need, a pleasure,''for her.
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* ConsummateLiar: Emma becomes one during [[spoiler: her tryst with Leon]], when it becomes ''a mania, a need, a pleasure,''for pleasure'', for her.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Both Bournisien, the local priest, and the chemist Homais frequently quote the Bible in their religious arguments.
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* AsTheGoodBookSays: Both Bournisien, the local priest, and the chemist Homais frequently quote the Bible Literature/TheBible in their religious arguments.
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* DecoyProtagonist: Charles Bovary. The first section of the novel follows his life, from school to his meeting with Emma and their marriage, after which the focus switches on her.
