Regardless of what it is the reason most people love is because you are getting something out of it. You might love someone and not think twice about it, but deep inside you enjoy the fact that the person you love loves you back, treats you well, provides you with comforts or is simply spends time with you. It is a rough concept to agree with but it does make some sense, even if it is really subtle love is very selfish. The realization for me was that the book implies there is no such thing as true love between people because the only thing that someone loves is themselves. Some would probably argue that Charles Bovary was a good person but if you examine his character you can notice that he never has a will of his own throughout the whole book he is only doing what people tell him to do, ultimately not knowing anything about himself or never having a real personality. In my opinion in the whole novel every character worked in there own self interest and could care less about any other person. Now I will admit that Emma Bovary was no beacon of morality and that her view on life wasn't the greatest but that doesn't imply that the message about love isn't there. Through out the entire story we see Emma's constant longing for that pristine conception of love but her hopes always seem to completely back fire. The novel Madame Bovary was an amazing novel no getting around that but one idea that presented itself that somewhat troubled me was, the vague notion of true love being inaccessible.
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