What are the major components of a successful marriage? Trust? Communication? Love? What happens when these vital components are missing? Could a marriage survive the absence of these extremely important elements? In the novels Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy and Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, there is a lack of these major factors in the heroines' marriages. The heroines of these novels are very similar; therefore it can be said that they exemplify a pattern in …showed first 75 words of 1433 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1433 total…monstrate the main components of a successful marriage. There are many instances of uncanny resemblances between the two novels. Both heroines see apparitions before their death, both protagonists, Anna and Emma, realize the stupidity of killing themselves. I believe that the resemblance between both novels is evident. I find it curiously interesting how they both see apparitions that represent everything they hoped not to become before dying. Their ill-conceived pursuit of happiness ends in tragedy.