The Only Savior Is Lost

For a soul in despair the only thing that can save it is another soul. By the time Felicite was young, she fell in love. Her life had been miserable from her birth and on, but he was still young and did not expect that she was going to be bleak until the day of her death. At this point it was probable that she could have expected more in life. and so after falling in love her fate could have been much different. Maybe a family, a good house. This could have been the only point in which in the novel, the plot could have been different. But obviously, it is at the mercy and hands of Mr. Flaubert, and it wouldn't be a Simple Heart if she had lived happily ever after in a beautiful house in the country. When her love was lost,the story's main theme got into track giving the reader and Felicite no hope until the last page has been turned. As she lost him, her heart closed up to any other lovable prospect: "When the time grew near, she ran to meet her lover. But instead of Theodore, one of his friends was at the meeting-place. He informed her that she would never see her sweetheart again; for, in order to escape the conscription, he had married a rich old woman, Madame Lehoussais, of Toucques"(Chapter 2, Page 2, Paragraph 3).

Theodore had also betrayed his heart for he had given it away to a false love, in order to escape the hardships of life, that his preceding counterpart would suffer all of her life. He has wasted his opportunity to love, he is placing love and money in the very common balance. The money won, and Felicite lost her chance to be saved from her misery, but as we well know this could have never happened.