Madam Bovary

Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, classic literature, 19th-century France, romanticism, realism, love and desire, societal expectations, women's roles, tragedy, disillusionment, emotional despair, forbidden love, marriage, financial ruin, literary masterpiece, character study, French literature, moral critique, human ambition, illusion vs reality, timeless themes, psychological depth, adultery, rural life, bourgeois society,