Castle building, phasing out, being distracted, mind tripping, walking off into “La, La Land”; we are all guilty of it: Daydreaming. Sigmund Freud said, "The motive forces of fantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single fantasy is the fulfillment of a single wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality." Most of us are guilty of the innocent step into our imaginations while others, like Freud is describing, yearn for their fantasies to come true and fulfill their discontented actuality. Madame Bovary, written by Gustave Flaubert, is a narrative that compels the reader to turn the page to uncover if the dreamer’s dreams are made into a reality. The tragedies of this novel are based on Emma’s hopeless romanticism and her relationship
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