rch of a new lover. At times she wishes that Charles would beat her so that it would give her more of a reason to actually hate him.
             She would have liked Charles to beat her, that
             she might have a better right to hate him, to
             revenge herself upon him. She was surprised sometimes as the atrocious conjectures that
             came into her thoughts, and she had to go on
             smiling, to hear repeated to her at all hours that
             she was happy, to pretend to be happy, to let
             it be believed. (Flaubert, pg. 83)
             Emma blames all of her misery on Charles and soon everything about him begins to irritate her. As their intimacy grows deeper, she begins to consequently draw herself away form Charles. She wants to love him so that she can avoid thinking such awful thoughts. Emma's escape towards the fantasies in literature is what tempts her to add a twist to her so-call boring life. Her solution is to commit adultery and she succeeds in finding two men whom she grows extremely fond of. Charles does not suspect that his
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