It was rather entertaining how Madame Bovary died by poisoning herself. It was no less than she deserved, considering what a whore she was. Unfortunately, Gustave Flaubert failed to instill any form of sympathy in me towards Madame Bovary, and instead made pages 280-290 the most enjoyable in the book. Nothing can beat watching a scandalous, sex addicted whore dying - "her rolling eyes dimmed like lamp globes as they fade into darkness, so that she might have been dead already, had it not been for the terrifying movements of her ribs... driven by her desperate breathing."
In fact, reading the other 301 pages made me want to join Emma, instead of suffering through page after page.
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Connor, this post sounds similar to mine. I couldn't agree more in how much I despise Emma. She deserved to die and I found the scene of her death extremely entertaining. It most definetly was the best part of the book. Great minds think alike.
I agree. Emma was a horrible character. Her "fake" love for Charles disgusts me. She doesnt care for anyone and I agree that her death was well deserved, also highly entertaining :)
Connor, I agree. Death by arsenic is rather entertaining. It is an appropriate death for such a slut. This death was the cumulation of her increasingly pathetic experience.
Ugh yes. I agree with all of you. Kenya, especially you: her fake love pissed me off. She didn't really love him; it was more of a tolerance because having an husband was "good for her image". But having a lover satisfied her lust...what a bitch.
Wow, it's rare that I've seen a fictional character elicit such uniform hostility. Connor, I think that Flaubert would chuckle over the delight you take in Emma's death scene (this was probably the reaction he'd aimed for), but is Emma really any more despicable than any of the book's other characters (I guess maybe Justin and Hippolyte might escape our disapproval, but it seems like Flaubert is adopting a pretty thoroughly misanthropic stance in this novel).
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