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Madame Bovary

Theme Pillar

The book from top to bottom, chapter by chapter, in narrative order. Each mark is a theme that the chapter develops. Tap a theme to follow only its thread.

Part I

Chapter 1 untitled in the book: Charles Bovary enters the novel as the new boy in a school class,...
Chapter 2 untitled in the book: One night a peasant arrives in Tostes with a note calling the doctor...
Chapter 3 untitled in the book: Father Rouault brings Charles Bovary seventy-five francs for the leg,...
Chapter 4 untitled in the book: Guests arrive early, from the whole region, in carts and gigs, and...
Chapter 5 untitled in the book: The narrator goes through the house in Tostes room by room, and the...
Chapter 6 untitled in the book: The chapter goes back to Emma Bovary's past, beginning with the...
Chapter 7 untitled in the book: Before the ball, Flaubert measures the distance between husband and...
Chapter 8 untitled in the book: In this chapter Emma's desire acquires the object that will guide the...
Chapter 9 untitled in the book: Here the ball stops being a memory and becomes an illness. Emma...

Part II

Chapter 1 untitled in the book: The book goes to Yonville-l'Abbaye (see Yonville), a village eight...
Chapter 2 untitled in the book: The Bovarys arrive at the Golden Lion inn, where Homais, who had...
Chapter 3 untitled in the book: The next morning Léon greets Emma Bovary, in her dressing gown, at...
Chapter 4 untitled in the book: With the first chills, Emma Bovary begins to live in the sitting room...
Chapter 5 untitled in the book: On a snowy Sunday in February, the Bovarys, Homais and Léon go half a...
Chapter 6 untitled in the book: At the beginning of April, when the Angelus bells ring, Emma Bovary...
Chapter 7 untitled in the book: After Léon's departure, Emma Bovary curses herself for not having...
Chapter 8 untitled in the book: On the day of the agricultural show, Yonville (see Yonville) dresses...
Chapter 9 untitled in the book: After six weeks of absence (he had decided not to return right away,...
Chapter 10 untitled in the book: With love, Emma Bovary begins to fear being discovered: one morning,...
Chapter 11 untitled in the book: Homais, a reader of a new method for curing club feet, convinces Emma...
Chapter 12 untitled in the book: Emma Bovary and Rodolphe Boulanger love each other again, and she...
Chapter 13 untitled in the book: At home, Rodolphe Boulanger rereads old letters from women,...
Chapter 14 untitled in the book: Charles Bovary, who sees the bills pile up during Emma Bovary's...
Chapter 15 untitled in the book: In Rouen, at the opera Lucia di Lammermoor, Emma Bovary recognizes...

Part III

Chapter 1 untitled in the book: In Rouen, Léon, back from Paris and no longer as shy as before, goes...
Chapter 2 untitled in the book: Back in Yonville, Emma Bovary is called to the pharmacy, where...
Chapter 3 untitled in the book: In Rouen, Emma Bovary and Léon spend three days at the Hotel de...
Chapter 4 untitled in the book: Léon escapes from the notary's office on a Saturday and goes to...
Chapter 5 untitled in the book: Every Thursday Emma Bovary takes the stagecoach to Rouen. From the...
Chapter 6 untitled in the book: Homais appears in Rouen at the invitation of Léon, who owed him a...
Chapter 7 untitled in the book: The day after the summons, the bailiff Hareng, with two witnesses,...
Chapter 8 untitled in the book: Emma Bovary goes to La Huchette to ask Rodolphe Boulanger for three...
Chapter 9 untitled in the book: With Emma Bovary dead, Charles Bovary has to be dragged out of the...
Chapter 10 untitled in the book: Uncle Rouault, who received Homais's letter thirty-six hours after...
Chapter 11 untitled in the book: Charles Bovary, in debt, sees Lheureux and Vinçart resume their...