Dear Diary,
I believe that a Madame Bovary can be used to look at the culture, but in a cautious way. We can determine what it was like for the main characters, but we are not able to assume that this is what happens to every person in the culture.
One of the things that we learn about in the first few chapters of Madame Bovary is marriage. In the novel we are able to see that when a couple is married, there are usually festivities that occur. In Charles marriage with Emma, this is especially true. We can also see from the text that marriages are arranged in the culture.
Overall, there is much we can learn from the book but we can not take these things for granted.
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