Madame Bovary has a basic plot: a woman trying to get away from her boring marriage and life, whose romantic ideals of love and life makes her crave money, beauty, and passion. But the beauty of this play lies in the details that Flaubert furnishes the piece with, and the masterful grasp of language that he has shown. Marcel Proust praised the "grammatical purity" of Flaubert's style, while Vladimir Nabokov said that "stylistically it is prose doing what poetry is supposed to do"