The Genesis Of Felicite

After the first chapter, the reader is bewildered. It is expected for the novel to be torment full, but maybe one does not consider the reasons or meaning of the misery that is seen. to begin with the sole name of "Felicite". This means extreme happiness, almost euphoria. This is the way in which Flaubert mocks his own character by giving her a name that does not match the way in which this character is going to survive and live inside the novel. This way maybe foreshadowing for a brief moment the irony that can be found in the novel, and the way a woman suffers from the day she was born, and only achieves happiness the day of her death.:"Like every other woman, she had had an affair of the heart"(Chapter 2, Paragraph 1). This is referring to the rough childhood and rupture in her family when she was young. But as Flaubert refers to it, as an episode every other woman has, he is burring Felicite even more into the ground. He is treating her as a normal being, when she is not. She is the heart an humble but harsh example of a miserable life in the 19th century in Europe were the height of snobbery existed, and in the deepest sewer, people with lives like Felicite. And so, as Flaubert tries to compare the troubles of Felicite to any other woman's troubles he is taking her importance away to make her even more gloomy, even to the book itself.
He could also mean that women suffer too much, but that would be drifting of the main point of the novel, with no sense in the deep meaning of it. The more sensitive and according interpretation could be the fact that after she has been doomed all of her life, her heart exists and is obviously the objective of the novel, the way in which her simple heart is able to appreciate things, even if at the end of er life, and simplicity to the point of having an exotic view of what she though was heaven. Her heart made her feel more than a simple soul would have, and this is why Felicite lived the way she did, to proof the simplicity, but honesty of a person's true heart and soul.