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The novel depicts the history of French social customs in the 19th century through the description of the tragic emotional life of Emma, a petty bourgeois woman. Emma, a vain farm girl, married Bovary, a country doctor, full of yearning for love. However, her husband's mediocrity and the dullness of her married life shattered her ideals of love, and she became depressed. Bovary moved to Yonville for her health, but the town was still unbearable for her. At the agricultural exhibition, she was seduced by the landowner Rodolfo and was soon abandoned. Later, Emma hooked up with Leon again and was abandoned again. Emma was deeply in debt during her affair, and finally committed suicide by swallowing arsenic in despair.
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