She is bored because she is useless, she is useless because she is too lazy to seek something meaningful to do she wants life to be a party, and resents it when it is not. Her daily trial does not include housework or drudgery, she has maids for that. It is very hard for a modern audience to feel sorry for her. Almost anything to break up the dismal tedium of her life and her disgust with everyone and everything in it. Here she seems to be more in love with the idea of being in love than actually loving. These qualities, of course, are perfect for this character. As an actress she often comes across as bright and hard, flirty and flighty, but cold and self satisfied. In short, she is selfish and inconsiderate, as ugly inside as she is pretty on the outside. She is married to a man who loves her with all his heart, who tries to give her everything she wants, is willing to ruin himself to make her happy, and she still cheats on him and remains miserable. Emma Bovary is not a very sympathetic creature. Many are stagy and slow, and while this production of MADAME BOVARY is very much constrained to stay indoors, this works to advantage for this story of a woman who feels so trapped by her life and her world. This is one of the better BBC historical dramas from the 1970s.
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