Her marriage with Charles makes her feels depressed. To solve that problem she wants to runaway with Rodolphe, her lover. But in fact,
Rodolphe leaves her and makes her heart broken. After Rodolphe left Emma, it does not make her give up to find her
another true love. According to her, Leon is another perfect man. He is taller, handsome, more charming, slightly out of focus. She wants to have
him and thinks that live with him will make her life better than before. She tries so many ways to have Leon. It can be seen when finally Emma can
easily make love with Leon in a moving cab. Flaubert, 1964: 131 Emma’s speech and her reaction above indicates that she is an
adventurous woman. When she is not comfortable with her life, she is willing to take risks and try new ideas.
c. Dreamy
At the age of fifteen, Emma likes very much to read some novels, most of them tells about love. This habbit is not good for her because of her
age at that time is too young to read such kinds of books. It makes her become a dreamer and has high fantasy about love.
“She wished that she had lived in some old manor, like those long- waisted ladies of the manor who spent their days under the trefoil of
pointed arches, elbows on rampart and chin in hand, watching a cavalier with a white feather emerge from the horizon on a galloping
black charger.” Flaubert, 1964:57
Emma’s habbit to read such romantic books influence her in her way of thinking. Not only has fantasy about love, she also has a fantasy of her
wedding. She dreaming that her wedding day will be very beautiful and
unforgettable. Emma dreamed of her wedding day;she could see herself down there;in the middle of the cornfields, on the tiny path, as they walked
toward the church. Flaubert, 1964:217 Emma has a high fantasy of love and marriage. She expects that her
marriage as romantic as the novel. After she married with Charles, the reality does not like what she has imagined before.
“Before she had married she thought she was in love. But the happiness that should have resulted from this love had not come; she
must have deceived herself, she thought. Emma sought to learn what was really meant in life by the words “happiness,” “passions,” and
“intoxication” words that had seemed so beautiful to her in books.” Flaubert, 1964:55
Another proof can be seen when she wants to feel how her honeymoon with Charles will be. She has a high fantasy of it. She dreams
that it will be so nice and beautiful. “Behind the blue silk shades of the mail coachesthey would slowly
climb up steep roads, listening to the song of postilion being echoed through the mountain together, with the sound of goat bells and the
muffled roar of a waterfall. At the sunset they would inhale the scent of lemon trees by the shores of the gulfs;then, in the evening, on the
terraces of the villas, alone, fingers intertwined, they would gaze at the stars and dream.” Flaubert, 1964:60
From the four evidences above, it can be noticed that Emma is a
dreamer. She has an idea or plans that are not practical or realistic.
B. The Contrast between Firdaus and Emma as Viewed from Feminist Perspective
In this section, the writer discusses the second question in the problem formulation. The analysis will more focus on the main character as
seen from the feminist perspective.The study of literature as viewed from
