Student Essay on Analysis of Madame Bovary

Provides a summary and analysis of the novel Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert. GIves a character study of Emma Bovary. Describes her transformation in the story.

The protagonist in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert is the character Emma Bovary. At the beginning of the novel, she is a beautiful young woman with brown eyes that look black due to her eyelashes. Her eyes seemed as if they "looked straight at you with naïve boldness." Her black hair accentuated the pink at the top of her cheeks. She has extremely white almond-shaped fingernails on top of her long, rough hands. She has a straight nose and full lips that cover her perfect teeth. Over time, her appearance begins to change. As she becomes more bored and unhappy with her life, she becomes paler and her face grows gaunter. However, she becomes beautiful, more beautiful than ever before, when she is with Rodolphe. She obtains the kind of beauty that is only the result.....