Emma Bovary and Jane Eyre have one thing in common. They both pursue love. Even though this is common in both of them, they take completely different roads to achieve true love. Jane Eyre seems to try to pursue love but something always came up to stop that from happening. Emma Bovary, on the other hand, is never happy with the love she has and wants to pursue something that was quite impossible and only seen in romance novels.

Jane Eyre lived a really hard life. To me, Jane had the hardest life of all the females in the other novels. Her pursuit for love was actually for love itself. It wasn’t anything materialistic, nor was it a physical attraction. She didn’t find her love in romance novels. She just wanted to fall in love. However, since she didn’t have anything to love, she had to look towards other things to love, which in this case is very sad:

To this crib I always took my doll; human beings must love something, and in the dearth or worthier objects of affection, I con

Jane didn’t even have the love coming to her from her family. She had no one but herself and her doll. Even though this unseen love from her family isn’t intimate love, it is still necessary to have in order to be able to know how to love someone. Somehow she found happiness in this little toy. She “could not sleep unless it was folded in her night-gown.” And when it was with her, she was happy, believing “it to be happy likewise.” Jane never got a break in life, until Mr. Rochester came into her life.

Emma Bovary took any means necessary to experience love, even if it involved doing the wrong thing. Jane, on the other hand, is also in need and has the desire to pursue the love she has never even came close to having. However, she didn’t stoop as low as Emma did. Emma, taking the wrong road in her pursuit of love, ended up deteriorating as a person. She was in debt, and she lost her “true loves” and her life. You get what you give. And what Emma gave was not to anyone else. It was always about her. She finally got what she deserved. Jane, on the other hand, lived her life day by day. Her mind was on the right track of letting love come naturally. When she was with Mr. Rochester, she had everything. She had love and wealth. She was set. However, when Mr. Rochester’s previous wife surfaced, Jane was out of there. Emma wouldn’t have cared because she had all the materialistic things she could have. Jane’s morals took over and she was able to make the right decisions. Jane is much more mature than Emma. Emma was pursuing love with a closed, unrealistic mind, which would eventually lead to her downfall; Jane was pursuing it with a more realistic and open mind to who could actually be her true love, which allowed her to find true happiness and love.

trived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow (Jane Eyre, 28).

The first affair was the beginning of her end, however, nothing comes of it this first time. His name was Leon. Emma couldn’t have been giddier to finally have a true lover, which, in reality, she already had but was too stubborn to realize it:

Emma Bovary is a woman who knows what she wants. But is what she wants reasonable? What she wants can only be found in the romance novels. She is looking for her “Prince Charming” to come and sweep her off her feet. However, she has another thing coming. She finally ended up with Charles, a very dull,

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