E1
Charles and Emma Bovary marry but their marriage is an unhappy one.
E2
Emma and Charles move to a village named Yonville where Emma becomes attracted to law student Leon Dupuis.
E3
Emma has a passionate affair with a patient of her husband but it ends with her getting unceremoniously dumped.
E4
Having mortgaged her husband's estate with her extravagant spending, Emma becomes desperate for money to pay her debts.