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Madame Bovary: Emma's Escape - Paper

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 ...

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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. The escape technique that she used to conjure up
images ...

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Added: 9/27/2006 12:45:15 AM
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