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What Is The Difference Between Madame Bovary And The Story Of An Hour

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Marriage is a covenant where two become one, cleaving to one another. The marital agreement between a man and a woman is a perpetual relationship establishing a covenant not a contract. As written on the Family Life website, Pat Ennis and Lisa Tatlock stated “A covenant cannot be broken if new circumstances occur. A contract can be voided by mutual consent.” In other words, the bond established by the man and the woman is an ongoing unending commitment to each another. In Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary,” Toni
Morrison’s “Sula” and Kate Chopin’s two short stories “The Storm” and “The Story of an
Hour” we see disloyalty, complex love, misery, unfulfillment and importantly, infidelity supposed matrimony. In the story “Madame Bovary,” Emma’s marriage is dull and uninteresting, her position as a wife and mother fails to make her happy or pleased. She has affairs with a man, named Rodolphe who is manipulative and seducing, also Leon who is a young musician. After she falls into misconduct she is still yet disappointed and unfulfilled in her desire for a meaningful life. For Emma, “… all the bitterness of life seemed to be served to her on a plate…” (Flaubert 62). She was angry and unhappy, with painful emotions – trying to fill a void within herself. Emma’s unfulfillment and ardent subjectivity boiled up to her breaking the covenant to her husband. Marriage as we must know, is ongoing despite the conditions. “Can two walk together except

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