Madame Bovary And Like Water For Chocolate Essay

In Literature and Life, Love is a powerful force. Sans love; feelings, desires and relationships may seem empty. This force however, can also be destructive, even may end a marriage. Marital discord, arising in general, due to infatuation, lust or affection for a third person, may crop up primarily facilitated by adverse familial, economic or societal conditions that do frequently find their mention in the written word. Some of these concerns like family, marriage, sexuality, society and death, are notably illustrated by the authors, Gustave Flaubert in Madame Bovary and Laura Esquivel in Like Water for Chocolate.

Bring Rosaura in.

These works under study present the marriages of Emma-Charles Bovary in Madame Bovary and Rosaura-Pedro in Like Water for Chocolate that are shaken at the end of each plot. It seems that marital discord is an indirect corollary of the roughness that was forced upon both the female protagonists, Emma and Tita. The cruelty imposed on

They generally suggest Emma’s ennui from marriage and a mask of deception she creates for her husband. Her eyes, as Flaubert mentions, and their colors, “Black when seen in shadow, dark blue in bright light, they seemed to have different layers of color…”, and that Charles’ “eyes became lost in those depths”5, suggest that Charles could never really penetrate beyond Emma’s superficiality and look beneath her semblance. When Emma hurls her bridal bouquet into the fire, near the end of Part I in irritation of her dreary matrimony, the response of the flames (“slowly devouring” the dried flowers) suggest Emma’s dying hopes for her future and foreshadow Emma’s unpromising marriage. But, it is ironic how by the end of that chapter, Flaubert informs the readers that Emma became pregnant, as if he, too, wanted Emma to have a possible hope for joy in this