The young Madame Bovary in Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary (translated by Geoffrey Wall) has a personality that is classically romantic, “Like a shipwrecked sailor, she perused her solitary world with hopeless eyes, searching some white sail far away where the horizon turns to mist” (58); filled with unrequited desire for her dreams of love, … Continue reading Madame Bovary, the Unexpected Heroin