Madame Bovary
How does Emma in Madame Bovary show provincialism?
Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
Madam "Madame Bovary" longs to escape the bourgeois provincialism. Educated in a convent and raised in the country, Emma marries Charles Bovary at a young age, Emma dreams of a more romantic, sophisticated, and passionate life, often lapsing into extreme boredom and depression. The gender and religious expectations of rural life (provincialism) does not agree with her: Emma wants more. She has affairs with both Rodolphe and Leon and thus develops massive debts against her husband's property. When she realizes she cannot escape her dishonesty and financial problems, Emma commits suicide; she prefers death over coming to terms with how she chose to live her life.