ANALYSIS DRAMA

MADAME BOVARY by GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Is Made to Fulfil One of the Course Assignment of
Literature Appreciation
Supporting Lecturer:
Dr. Dra. Hj Dwi Ima Herminingsih, M. Hum.

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2. Siti Mei Purnamawati (12203183108)
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ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF TARBIYAH AND TEACHER TRAINING
STATE ISLAMIC INSTITUTE OF TULUNGAGUNG
SEPTEMBER 2019
 The Summary of the Drama Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Madame Bovary tells the story of Emma Rouault. Madame Bovary or

Emma such as beautiful woman but she has a low social statues. She is an ambitious
woman who dreams of living in a perfect life. She decided to married Charlie
Bovary, a doctor who works in a small town. She thinks that by marrying Charles,
she would become a noble living will full luxury and makes her happy. But
unfortunately, her marriage is not make her happy. She realized that her husband is
not romantic person, and he just a doctor who always focused on his work. Because
of her unhappy married, she ended up having an affair with many men. She also
used her husband’s money for fun. Once, she was in debt, she was so confused to
pay it off. She felt so hopeless and decided to suicide. At the last moment of her
life, her husband Charles was always by her side. He really loves his wife. However,
he finally found out that her wife was having an affair with another man. He was so
upset and broken into pieces, and finally he decided to kill himself.

A. Analysing Drama
1. Plot
This drama has a forward storyline. Where it is proven when
Madame Bovary felt unhappy with her marriage, and started to having many
affairs. And at the end of the story, she and her husband decided to ended
their life.
2. Character
a. Protagonist:
Charles Bovary. Emmas’s husband, he is a hardworking, simple,
common man, and focus for his work. Even though, he is not romantic
person, he is really love his wife. Charles gave his wife full financial
control, but his wife having an affair with another man and it make his
world bored and common.
b. Antagonist:
 Madame Bovary (Emma Rouault). She had a very romantic view of
the world and need of beauty, wealth, passion, and high society. The
differentce between her expectations and her life made her to be an
 ambitious and greedy woman and eliminate the good side of her.
She’s not afraid to have an affair with many men.
 Leon Dupuis. He is a handsome and smart man. He works as notary,
and has the same interest with Emma. Finally, they fell in love each
other and have a relationship with her. But, their relationship has
ended, because Leon decided to continues his study in Paris. But he
and Emma meet again after he finished his school. But, after Emma
had a lot of debt, and he dumped her.
 Rodoulphe Boulanger. He is a friend of Charles, and he is a wealthy
local man and a landlord. He is a playboy and sweet talker. He fell
in love with Emma’s beauty, and started to tease her. Emma likes
what he does to her, and started to love Roudolphe. But, Roudolphe
just making her to satisfied his lust.
c. Tritagonist:
 Monsieur Lheureux. He is loan shark. Lheureux is a manipulative
and sly merchant that continues to convince people in Yonvill to
buy credit goods and borrow money from him. Emma borrowed his
money and trying to pay off her debt with her beauties, but the loan
sharks more interest with her money.
 The notary of Yonville. Emma meet the notary of Yonville to borrow
some money, unfortunately she was abused by him.
3. Setting
a. Place : Frances (Yonville, Toste, Rouen).
b. Time : 18th century
c. Situation : Tragic and sad. ( The love story of Emma and Charles is very
tragic and they are ended up to commit suicide ).
4. Theme
The theme from the drama of Madame Bovary is tragic romance.
Can see in the plot that the character’s love story always one-sided love.
5. Point of view
The point of view of this drama are the first person and the third
person. The beginning of the story the narrator using a first-person point of
 view to tell about the Charles’s life. By starting with a first-person narrator,
Flaubert invites credibility of the story. And then switches to the third-
person point of view to focus to Emma’s character. Flaubert using the third-
person point of view to make moral judgement that may otherwise have
been dismissed as only the opinions of a first-person narrator.
6. Moral Value
If we want a successful life, we need to hardworking to achieve our
dreams. Do not only have a high expectation. And also, if we had marriage
to someone, we have to faithful with our couple.
B. Social Condition Approach
1. Biography of author:

Name : Gustave Flaubert.

Born : 12th December 1821, Rouen,
France.
Died : 7 May 1880 (aged 58),
Croisset (Canteleu), Rouen,
France.
Father : Achille Cléophas Flaubert
(the head of surgery at the
Rouen hospital).
Mother : Anne-Justine-Caroline.
Occupation : Novelist and writer of drama.
Genre : Fictional prose.
Literary movement: Realism, romanticism.
Publisher : Revue de Paris (in serial) and
Michel Levy Freres (in a book
form, 2 Vols).
Publication date: 1856 (in serial) and
April 1857 (in a book form).
 Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist and writer of drama. He was
an author and made a masterpiece called Madame Bovary (1857), and one
of the most influential novelist of his time who wrote the fiction in a
naturally realistic manner. At his childhood, Flaubert spent a lot of his time
to travelling and reading Shakespeare. He started to write at the age of 16.
In the 1860’s Flaubert enjoyed being a writer and intellectual in the court of
napoleon III. Flaubert also frequently visited brothels, which caused him to
have a venereal disease. Flaubert never married, instead focusing on caring
for his mother and niece. In his last years experienced financial difficulties
because he gave away his money to save his niece’s husband from
bankruptcy. On May 7, 1880, Flaubert died because a brain hemorrhage in
Croisset Jeaving and unfinished his novel Boulevard Et Pecuchet &
DCTVO. Flaubert’s main work include Salambo (1862), L’Education
Sentimentale (1869), La Tentation DE saint Antoine (1874), and a book of
short stories titled Trois Contes (1877). His novel mostly with a realism and
romanticism genre.

2. The background writer made the drama

Flaubert makes this novel inspired by a social problem in Victorian

era. Where the women rely their whole lives on men. When the women
become a wife, she has to stay at home and must be a housewife only. When
a woman has an own dream, they have only to choices. When a women want
to reach their dreams they have to take the risk for everything or try to accept
their reality.

3. Sources
http://www.wikipedia.org/wik/Madame_Bovary
https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/ringgitaguilar/madame-bovary-
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https://www.pojokbuku.blogspot.com
https://hirahito.wordpress.com