Madame Bovary
Are the dreams I chase truly my own desires, or merely borrowed illusions?
📝ONGO's Reflection
We often live mistaking the dramatic life manufactured by novels and the media for something truly our own. When I first read Emma Bovary's tragedy, I could not bring myself to mock her—for in her vain longings I saw myself. Flaubert peers, as through a microscope, into the human nature that flounders in the gap between fantasy and reality. The book asks: is that radiant goal you are now chasing truly born of your own soul? It is a painful and beautiful mirror of a novel, one we must each pass through at least once in order to live a life that is genuinely our own.
"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
"인간의 언어란 깨진 솥단지와 같아서, 우리는 그것을 두드려 곰을 춤추게 할 가락을 타지만 정작 별의 마음을 움직이고 싶어 한다."
🌱Apply It Today
Write a list of the things you want today. Then sort them: which came from others' standards, and which from your own pure joy.
