Madame Bovary: Emma's Escape
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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 descr ....
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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 ....
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