A Study on Women in Madame Bovary and A Life

Maupassant was the disciple of Flaubert, who was the friend of his uncle. Our subject is a study of heroins of two novels 'Madame Bovary' and 'A life'. Emma of 'Madame Bovary' had read the romantic novels in the abbey, and thought that herself had been the heroins. Emma's misery had begun from her marriage. She had felt ennui of marriage and fled into adultery. She had been transformed into mascular person. On the contrary, Jeanne was very passif and could decide nothing. She obeyed first to her father and then her husband. She lost the possession because of her son. Finally it was Rosalie her servant that decided her actions instead of her. She had a life very passif and sad in languor, despair and dream. Jeanne was the anti-heroin on the contrary of Emma and Gervaise. Her botanique image has shown the passivity and the immobility. She was transformed only on the actif subject in the nature. Maupassant is estimed as the writer who progressed the aesthetic theory of Flaubert. Why Jeanne was more passif and conservative than Emma? Flaubert has described the bourgeois and the desire not feminine but human. So I think that Flaubett is more modern and better than Maupassant in the literature.