Emma's Death

This paper takes Flaubert's first novel Madame Bovary as the main research object. Referring to the subjectivity theory of psychoanalysis, the paper discusses the root causes of "Emma's death" and the relationship between Emma and the writer by in-depth text analysis. The author holds that the root cause of Emma's death is entanglement and conversion of desire subject and desire object, that is, Emma as a subject; it can not be reconciled between her own desire and the object of desire projecting on. On the basis of text analysis, this paper probes the similarities between Flaubert and the image of Emma in Madame Bovary. Madame Bovary is the most famous realistic long novel of Flaubert and is entrusted with his most perfect romantic feelings. Flaubert not only writes by the perfect way to make up for the cruel reality of the content, and more importantly, he reflects universal and forward-looking in his works, that is, he declines to the literature which only belong to a historical era or a country. Flaubert hopes to create the works which could be able to bear with the development of humanity as a whole. That is the other writers in the nineteenth century can not match. This paper is divided into six chapters.Introduction:"Flaubert and Madame Bovary". This section focuses on Flaubert's status in history of the world literature, as well as studies of Flaubert, especially the studies of Madame Bovary. At present, study of Flaubert has made the rich achievement. However, in China, research on reasons of Emma's tragedy still rests on the level of social and historical criticism, rarely involves the desire characteristics of Emma own and the inevitable result. This paper hopes to strengthen Madame Bovary in the further study through this angle. Part 1:"Formation of desire subject's feathers ". This part discusses the process of formation of Emma's subjectivity. In her ignorant youth, Emma's growth way appears the dislocation between the ideal and the reality because her father's Noble Plot and the lack of her mother image.Part 2:"Entanglement and conversion of desire subject and desire object". In real life, the double personality of Emma and Madame Bovary make the subject show the characteristics of split personality. "Alien subject" struggles in particular desire object-"Three Valentines" and hopes to meet the physical and psychological needs of her own. But in the end, it is noting. Emma has to suffer the pain of despair.Part 3:"Twice deaths of the subject". Spiritual depravity opened the door to fall, one hair out of control. Physical suicide for Emma is just one effective way to maintain her dignity.Part 4:"Perfectionist-Gustavo Flaubert ". This part of "Madame Bovary is me!" As the starting point, but not limited to "Madame Bovary." This section focus on two aspects:First, it mainly discusses romantic feelings between Flaubert and Emma; second, referring to Flaubert's life philosophy, the paper discusses the main contents and the underlying formation reasons of Flaubert's perfectionism.Conclusion:"Reflections on modern society". Flaubert thinks that the nature of life is the pot of soup which is floating a number of hairs, but you have to drink it. It performs most vividly in cruelty and the helplessness of life in Flaubert's works. How to deal with the life? This is a permanent thinking that Flaubert leaves our human society.