![]() ![]() It is therefore important to ask the question if the reader should sympathize with Emma or go the other route and be revolted by her actions. A few years after his marriage to Charles, she committed adultery. However, the story will immortalize Emma as Madame Bovary. The same moniker was given to Charles’ former wife. Emma is now known as Madame Bovary junior to distinguish her from the elder Bovary. When he married Emma, she inherited Flaubert’s moniker given to Charles’ wife (Flaubert 18). Therefore, she initiated the arranged marriage between his son and a widower who was very much older than Charles. Even with impressive credentials and with the title of doctor attached to his name, Charles’ mother had good reasons to worry about his son’s future. In fact, his own mother was unsure if Charles could survive on his own. ![]() Charles married her because he was unsure of himself. ![]() Through an immersive video experience, the exhibition explores how these factors have persisted over the 150 years since Flaubert’s novel was published.Charles was married to a young woman. Working anachronistically to highlight the novel’s shocking contemporaneity, Madame B opens up historical and contemporary connections between economics and romantic love, desire, consumption and loneliness. ![]() It is a collaboration between Dutch cultural theorist and video artist Mieke Bal and British video and performance artist Michelle Williams Gamaker. The project is hosted and curated by Michaela Giebelhausen and Alison Green, Course Leaders of BA Culture, Criticism and Curation and MA Culture, Criticism and Curation. Until 15 April, Madame B is an immersive video installation which examines the link between capitalism and romance in relation to Gustave Flaubert’s 1856 novel Madame Bovary. Visit Central Saint Martin’s Lethaby Gallery for an immersive video installation which deconstructs and recontextualises Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary. ![]()
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