Madame Bovary - Emmas Escape

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Term Paper Title	Madame Bovary - Emmas Escape
# of Words	750
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                        Madame Bovary - Emma's Escape

          A theme throughout Flaubert's Madame Bovary is escape versus
confinement. In the novel Emma Bovary attempts again and again to
escape the ordinariness of her life by reading novels, having affairs,
day dreaming, moving from town to town, and buying luxuries items. It
is Emma's early education described for an entire chapter by Flaubert
that awakens in Emma a struggle against what she perceives as
confinement. Emma's education at the convent is perhaps the most
significant development of the dichotomy in the novel between
confinement and escape. The convent is Emma's earliest confinement,
and it is the few solicitations from the outside world that intrigue
Emma, the books smuggled in to the convent or the sound of a far
away cab rolling along boulevards.
          The chapter mirrors the structure of the book it starts as we
see a satisfied women content with her confinement and conformity at
the convent.
          At first far from being boredom the convent, she enjoyed the
company of the nuns, who, to amuse her, would take her into the chapel
by way of a long corridor leading from the dining hall. She played
very little during the recreation period and knew her catechism well.
(Flaubert 30.)
          The chapter is also filled with images of girls living with
in the protective walls of the convent, the girls sing happily
together, assemble to study, and pray. But as the chapter progresses
images of escape start to dominate. But these are merely visual images
and even these images are either religious in nature or of similarly
confined people.
          She wished she could have lived in some old manor house, like
those chatelaines in low wasted gowns who spent their days with their
elbows on the stone sill of a gothic window surmounted by trefoil,
chin in hand watching a white plumed rider on a black horse galloping
them from far across the country. (Flaubert 32.)
         As the chapter progresses and Emma continues dreaming while in
the convent the images she conjures up are of exotic and foreign
lands. No longer are the images of precise people or event but instead
they become more fuzzy and chaotic. ...

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