Let's Discuss Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert

Shortly after the book *Madame Bovary* was published in Protected content , its author, Gustave Flaubert, was brought to trial in France. The reason: bringing a story considered immoral—one that openly depicted an adulterous woman—into people's homes. The case made the book famous at the time, but it was the quality of the work that established it as a landmark of realist literature.

In the story, Emma Bovary is a young woman who forms her idea of romantic relationships by reading serialized novels, but real life proves not to be as fascinating as the fiction she enjoyed.

Her marriage to the doctor Charles is tedious, and Emma lives an unhappy life until she meets and becomes involved with the womanizer Rodolphe. Later, she falls in love with Léon, with whom she begins an extramarital affair. Flaubert is said to have drawn inspiration from a true story to create the plot.