Is Fate to Blame in "Madame Bovary"?

Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 11,0, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, course: Development of the English Novel, language: English, abstract: In Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary the heroine Emma Bovary commits suicide in the end after going broke and being rejected by her lovers. Years after that, her husband Charles meets Rudolphe, one of her lovers, but Charles does not blame him for her death, but “fate.” By definition, fate is the development of events outside a person’s control, regarded as predetermined by a supernatural power and leading thus to the inescapable death of a person. In order to determine whether or not fate is to blame, one has to consider the events that led to Emma’s death and if they are based on her own decisions: