Madam Bovary Is Me

 

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Poster of drama Madam Bovary Is Me. [Photo: sina.com.cn]

Hong Huang, a celebrity with many roles including media mogul, publisher, and blogger, said that nowadays every man was sleeping with a Madame Bovary. Women with unreasonable love fantasies and insatiable longing for social status, who read romance novels on Internet, make themselves fall in love with the things they can't understand, like art and men.

"This kind of fantasy or dream is absolutely universal. We all know that in America, most of the Western countries or in Japan and China, this is very common. Women wear different clothes every day to win the admiration of men, just because they are pretty or beautiful. They have a strong lust for designer label handbags and clothing. But I would say that countries like Norway, Finland, Switzerland -- I have the impression that they have different values. Values are the most important things governing people. If we have the impression that women should be like this, even men will chase after this goal. If we say there are many ways to look at life, life could have so many more goals for us to achieve. Then maybe the things we see on TV or in magazines would mean less to us, because we would be our own masters. That's one of the reasons why Emma suffered from her lifestyle, because she was just a slave to her desires and fantasies."

Most people would blame Emma's tragedy on her emptiness, which exists among modern people too, though we have many more choices and forms of entertainment than before. Few people can really find their place. Lin gives us his thoughts on dealing with emptiness.

"We are all like books. We are facing either a thicker volume or thinner volume. We might feel insecure and afraid when we are facing, you know, blank pages. We don't know what to put down. If you are a more adventurous person, then you might be able to take on more challenges. But most of the people I have come cross, they much prefer to do things by imitation. But if you copy things obviously, you are doing something that may mean less to you, because it is not coming from the bottom of your heart. It is important to be more active, to be more open to change, to be adventurous when dealing with your life. We would feel a lot less empty if we could feel compassion for other people. One lesson we can learn from Madame Bovary is not to blame others for being so vain. Instead, we should discover the similarities between them and ourselves, so we will not repeat their paths and experience more happiness in our lives."

Madame Bovary has wrapped performances in Shanghai and Beijing, receiving high commendations from its audiences. It will next travel to Xi'an from December 30 to 31.(CRIENGLISH.com)