Destiny vs. Fate. Refers to Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Destiny: the seemingly inevitable succession of events.1                  Is this definition true, or do we, as people in real life or characters in novels, control our own destiny? Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary exemplifies how we hold destiny in our own hands, molding it with the actions we take and the choices we make. Flaubert uses Emma Bovary, the main character of his novel, to demonstrate this. Throughout her life, Emma makes many decisions, each one of …

…lives in the world of novels and fantasies and tries to compensate for the monotony of her life by making 'of the wall' decisions that only hurt her in the end. Throughout the novel Emma is faced with moments where her decision is needed, and rarely does she make the right one. Bibliography 1. Flaubert, G. Madame Bovary. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1972. 2. Guralnik, David B. Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language. New York:                  Warner Books, 1982.