End of the Bovarys

In this last section of Madame Bovary it is possible to see that the novel has quite an iterative plot. As in other parts of the book Emma follows what can be described as an repetitive set of actions. Emma keeps borrowing money from Lhereux in order to fulfill her extravagant desires. Another of Emma´s auction that has also been seen previously in the novel is her attitude towards Leon. At every part of Madame Bovary, Emma has a lover and even though at the beginning of the romance both feel quite satisfied, eventually Emma and Leon become tired of each other, Leon becomes tired of her extravagant desires and Emma thinks he doesn’t love her once he is held up by Homais while going to see her. Emma does not see her actual situation until the very end of the novel, at which point the demise of the Bovarys is clear. Emma, greatly in debt tries to raise the money at any costs, but upon failure to do so kills herself. Charles on the other hand suffers greatly with his wife’s death and never acknowledges her unfaithfulness and the fact that she was the one that brought him in to his current situation. At the end Charles is unable to come up with the money to pay off his debts and finds letters from Rodolphe and Leon to Emma, finally accepting the fact that she was unfaithful and holds his fate as a consequence to Emma´s behavior. Consequently he dies and Berthe is eventually sent to work at a cotton mill.