An Education In Escape: Madame Bovary And Reading

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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 ...

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