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In the acclaimed novel Madame Bovary by Gaustave Flaubert, the main character .
Emma, was brought up in a convent with nuns which had very strict rules. Once a week .
the woman who cleaned the convent came to do her job. She would keep a romance .
novel in her apron pocket and would lend it to Emma. The novel was filled with .
everything that the nuns did not approve of thus making it even more taboo. "They(the .
novels)were all about love and lovers, damsels in distress swooning in lonely lodges, .
postllions slaughtered all along the road, horses ridden to death on every page, gloomy .
forests, troubles of the heart, vows, sobs, tears, kisses, rowing-boats in the moonlight, .
nightingales in the grove, gentlemen brave as lions gentle as lambs, too virtuous to be .
true, invariably well-dressed, and weeping like fountains. And for six months of her .
sixteenth year, Emma soiled her hands with this refuse of old lending libraries."(Flaubert .
50) Because of this exposure to the "taboo" it lit a fire so to speak, it burned slowly for a .
while she dreamed of having lovers and of a man to sweep her off of her feet. She .
married Charles Bovary, a boring doctor who did not meet up with her unrealistic .
expectations for romance thus, making her angry at him. He loved her and found no .
fault with her no matter how bad she treated him. This bitterness drives her to numerous .
affairs with two real men Leon and Rodolphe and a fantastical affair with the Viscount, .
and the neglect of her daughter, Berthe. Rodolphe eventually loses interest in her but she .
tries to rekindle the love in order to get a loan from him. He refuses and she becomes .
very angry. She then consumes a large can of arsenic and with doing that she found .
peace. "And she went away, suddenly at peace, serene as in the consciousness of a duty .
done." (Flaubert 326).
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In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, The boys on the island execute two forms .
