I think Flaubert would not support Diotima’s ideas about love because he might have a difficulty understanding how love is of the beautiful. Diotima tells Socrates, “The happy are made happy by the acquisition of good things” (p.28). Flaubert opposes this statement through the novel Madame Bovary. Emma, the heroine of the novel, tries to make herself happy by acquiring good things, but she incurs a great amount of debt, which causes her to eventually kill herself. Emma is portrayed as a lost soul who romanticizes about what love should be. She is absorbed in a state of mind completely delusional, which stems from her childhood when she grew up in the convent. In the convent she began to form illusions of how love or romance should
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