Adventurous The Characteristics of Emma in “Madame Bovary”

Firdaus when she still in very young age. He is doing what he shouldn’t do toward his niece. I was trembling all over, seized with a feeling I could not explain, that my uncle’s great long fingers would draw close to me after a little while, and cautiously lift the eiderdown under which I lay. Then his lips would touch my face and press down on my mouth, and his trembling fingers would feel their way slowly upwards over my thighs. Saadawi, 1983:21 Not only that, but he also agrees with his wife’s idea to marry her with Syekh Mahmoud although she still very young. She should marry with the man, who is too old for her. Her uncle does not care about what Firdaus feeling toward Syekh Mahmoud whether she loves him or not. Saadawi, 1983: 38-39. ii. Syekh Mahmoud Syekh Mahmoud is Firdaus’s husband. He is already over sixty whereas Firdaus has not yet turned nineteen. She accepts this marriage because of her uncle’s order not because her love. In Firdaus’s marriage she is not happy at all. Everyting about Syekh Mahmoud disgusts her. On his chin, below the lip, was a large swelling, with a hole in the middle. Some days the hole would be dry up, but on others it would turn into a rusty old tap exuding drops red in colour like blood, or withish yellow, like pus. Saadawi, 1983:45 “When his arms and legs let go of me, I would gently slip my body out from under him, and go on tiptoe to the bathroom. There I would carefully wash my face and lips, my arms and thighs, and every part of my body, taking care not to miss a single inch, going over it several times with soap and water.”Saadawi, 1983:46 Not only that, Firdaus also accepts bad treatment from his husband. Syekh Mahmoud gets into the habbit of beating her whether he has a reason for it or not. Firdaus marriage is like a disaster for her. On one occasion he hits her all over with his shoe. Her face and body becomes swollen and bruised. Saadawi, 1983:46. He leapt on me like a dog. The hole in his swelling was oozing drops foul-smelling pus. I did not turn my face or my nose away this time. I surrendered my face to his face and my body to his body, passively, without any resistance, without a movement, as though life had been drained out of it, like a piece of dead wood or old neglected furniture left to stand where it is, or a pair of shoes forgotten under a chair. One day he hit me with his heavy stick until the blood ran from my nose and ears. Saadawi, 1983:47 iii. Bayoumi Bayoumi is the man whom Firdaus meet at the street. Firdaus meets Bayoumi when she looks for a job. She really wants to get a job although she has just secondary school certificate. It indicates that Firdaus is a high spirit woman because she wants to achive something that she wants. I have a secondary school certificate. Maybe I can find a job with my secondary, or with my primary school certificate. But if necessary I’m prepared to do anything, even the kind of work that requires no certificates Saadawi,1983:49 But in fact, what Firdaus wants, cannot be realized. Bayoumi lies to her and does not do anything to help her. Bayoumi who at first promise Firdaus to help her looks for a job, on the contrary does sexual abuse toward her. Not only that, he also does physical abuse until she lost her consciousness immediately. It was as though as I was seeing the eyes that now confronted me for the first time. Two jet black surfaces that stared into my eyes, travelled with an infinitely slow movement over my face, and my