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In the beginning, I felt uncomfortable with the subtle criticism of women in the book. Surprisingly, along the way, I can get along with the story and I love it. Charles Bovary has a dull personality, insensitive, lack of confidence and no excitement. He was the opposite character of Emma. He assumed that Emma is happy. Knowing not that Emma was unsatisfied with her life being married to him. Based on what I have read, Emma's predicament came from her own self-inflicted and also caused by her natural desire for love. She was influenced so much into fictionalizing romance in novels which sounded very promising towards love, relationship and more about happily ever after stories. She let her fictionalized world controlled her mind. She was not exposed to the real definition of marriage. She thought Charles could be her perfect true love character as in the book. Those factors have inflicted her to rush for love and wanting to know more about love and be loved. She didn't marr...

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer is a literary historical fantasy novel written by the German writer Patrick Süskind. It is a genius and compelling book to be read by all. The novel is written figuratively and the story development is very engaging. The novel is full of sensory language. The synonym words like perfume, odour, scent, stench, stink are frequently used in this book. Even though reading required the eyes and the brain to comprehend the story, my nose would sniff in every part of the story told by Patrick Suskind in this book. The elements used by Suskind attracted me to read and study more about this story. The story is about Jean-Bapstiste Grenouille who was left by his mother at birth and being rejected from society because he has no scent and was seen as an abnormal person. He often being magically survived in many difficult situations. After committing his first murder, he finally found the meaning of his life. He wanted to have a higher destiny and nothing less t...