EmmaBovary, the wife of a kindly but dull country doctor, yearns for a life of luxury and romance that she has read about in popular novels.
爱玛·包法利夫人是亲切但枯燥无味的乡村医生的妻子，她渴望像通俗小说中写的一样的奢华浪漫的生活。
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That some of our most canonized heroines—Clarissa Harlowe, Isabel Archer, EmmaBovary, Anna Karenina—are products of male imaginations is not surprising.
EmmaBovary and Pan Jinlian share many similarities. Both represent the life of women who went beyond the rules of their time. They also both reflect the male-dominated society of the period.