19th Century Women

Emma Bovary in Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary is bored with her life and dissatisfied with the people she knows, the world she inhabits, and her surroundings. The reason given for her attitude is her high-mindedness, which could be a source of ambition and a spur to greater effort to achieve the ideal. For Emma, though, it is a source of dissatisfaction and makes her hyper-critical, always ready to move from one person to another, and ultimately foolish. The affairs she has are with men she believes to be as noble and grand as the character of fiction, but here again she is bound to be disappointed in the reality and is betrayed again and again as a consequence. Rodolphe betrays her openly by disappearing, while Leon betrays her with the reality of his personality so that she becomes bored once more and drops him. Emma's affairs are not noble or grand as she believes they should be.

Another woman whose social roles have been decided for her by the men in her life is Hedda Gabler in

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