Does boredom kill a person?

Flaubert's Madame Bovary is a book I have always heard but never read, and it is so mysterious that anyone who has read it can not tell the outline of the story, but can only say in general terms the story of the fall of a vain woman.

I don't have the patience to read translated novels (usually a mouthful), so I chose to watch movies. After reading it, I would like to say that this story has nothing to do with vanity. Its theme can be summed up in this sentence: will boredom kill a person?

to change the saying of chicken soup: one cannot live without ideals.

or, in the words of Nietzsche: God is dead, what about man?

Madame Bovary is not a particular vain woman. She is anyone. This is what Flaubert meant by "I am Madame Bovary".

Mrs. Bovary-Emma, the wife of a country doctor, has a decent middle-class life, a house with a garden, a maid, food and clothing, and her husband loves her very much, gives birth to a lovely daughter, and a babysitter to help with the children. Worse off than some, better off than many. However, this kind of life can not satisfy her, she yearns for the prosperity of the big city, yearns for the aristocratic life, so some people say that she is vain.

but when I look at it as an outsider with some experience, I see that the kind of luxury she pursues is not what she really wants. Even if she gets it, she won't be satisfied. This is the tragedy: she has no idea what she wants and can only grasp what she can pursue in her field of vision, buy beautiful clothes and have an affair. This makes her look like a vain woman.

I think that if a person pursues his true ideal, he will be secure even if he fails. If, like Emma, all she wanted in her life was an illusion, and the emptiness at the bottom of her heart could never be filled, it would be a complete tragedy.

I've seen a lot of people like Emma. Some girls, when they reach the prime of their youth, "it's time to have a boyfriend." There happens to be a young man to pursue, so let's fall in love. Helplessly, I have been in love one after another, holding hands and holding flowers, but the passion has only passed for a month or two. Maybe love is just a deceitful thing in novels and movies, isn't it?

It is every girl’s dream to look her absolute best in 50s style bridesmaid dresses. Our huge collections of are better than the rest.

there are many college students who are very lost on campus. When they graduated, they heard that it was good to take an examination of civil servants. Let's take an examination of civil servants. Some unit welfare is good, entrust the relation to go to this unit. What is the ideal? it can't be used to buy a house.

it is a kind of happiness to have a good job and a well-matched partner, just like the mediocre country doctor Bovary. But for a more sensitive and metaphysical person, this mediocrity often drives people crazy because they can't find the meaning of life.

Emma is pitiful, for she does not know what she wants after all; but at the same time she is admirable, she is pursuing, breaking free, even if her posture is ugly, even if she destroys herself. I would rather die than reconcile with mediocrity.

Flaubert seems to be a prophet. In the 19th century, when the middle class was still on the rise, he acutely pointed out the fragility of this class.

A profiteer can easily destroy a middle-class family like Bovary with debt. After Bovary and his wife died, their daughter became a female worker in a yarn mill and was reduced to the bottom. Today, profiteers are replaced by the property market, the stock market, and all kinds of financial management. As long as there is a little impact, the seemingly stable and decent life may come to naught overnight.

this is a great work that describes the pain caused by pure spiritual emptiness. Today, more than a hundred years later, it is not only not out of date, but also catches the reality of the depressed spirit of the contemporary middle class. In the United States, which is extremely rich in material wealth, similar films have emerged one after another in recent years, such as "Revolutionary Road", "lost Love" and "Pray for Love". It happened to coincide with each other for more than a hundred years, which confirmed Flaubert's profound insight and advanced thought. Such a work, I think it is worth my time to read the original novel.