Composed commentary, Madame BovaryWork submitted to professors Pierre Folliet and Myriam Vien in the course FREN 251By Chloé Mendola 260552420McGill University 10 April 2014In 1849, inspired by a news story, Flaubert wrote Madame Bovary, his “terrible thought” that will occupy him with more than four years of hard work. It tells the story of Emma, ​​a young naive and romantic girl, who, dreaming of absolute and chivalrous love, becomes a victim of her illusions. Daughter of a rich farmer, wife of a "health officer", far from being a prestigious and ambitious doctor, she must be content with a petty bourgeois situation very far from her aspirations, hence her search1 for romantic love with its impulses enthusiasts. All the more passionate because they are adulterers, with a taste for the forbidden and dangerous. Here, on this page, which, in some respects, resembles the archetype of a romantic evening between lost lovers. in the purest romantic vein, Flaubert instills a poison, the poison of his lucidity. Lovers evolve in a seemingly conniving environment, but beyond appearances, what does this place made for love tell us? As for the ideal love that Emma dreams of in the fusion of souls, she has the possibility of penetrating Rodolphe's heart to read his deception. Is romantic nature a nature complicit in the moods of the poet or the lovers? It shakes the heart for a long time, the meditation of a Lamartine by the lake, even if it involves mourning an absence. Nature thus becomes a privileged interlocutor, a mirror of the soul. Flaubert takes up these elements and, according to Emma's secret desires, sets up a scene intended to exalt feelings. The... center of the paper... yellow uilles, and I was the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words they said and the red sun that made their eyelids close with love. ". If you want, there is a fusion between nature and the heart. But here it is not a full heart, it is not a loving nature. It is a cracked, wounded, pierced heart, nature is a kind of cold, merciless witness , of a rupture, of a rupture. religious exaltation at the end of the novel, when Emma receives the last rites; in this moment she adores God, her only resource, as she adored her lover. She has lost everything, everything around her is ruin.4