es mixed together with lions and tigers. These dreams continue and change themselves into a death wish as swans transform themselves into dying swans, and singing into funeral music. But Emma, although bored with her fantasy, refuses to admit it and she starts to revolt against the confines of the convent and the discipline, which was against her constitution. When her father finally came to take her, no one, not even the Lady Superior was sorry to see her leave.Emma Bovary's education at the convent is significant not only because it provides the basis for Emma's character, but also because the progression of images in this chapter is indicative of the entirety of the novel. Her thoughts progress from confinement to escape to chaos and disintegration. Thus, through the course of her life, Madame Bovary changes from a woman content with her marriage to a women who rebels against the conventions of her society to a women whose life is so chaotic to the point that she commits suicide. Indeed, Madame Bovary’s life is like a mirror that reflects upon her early childhood. Emma Bovary found pleasure in the things around her that quenched her boredom while living in the convent. One was her novels. "They were filled with love affairs, lovers, mistresses, persecuted ladies fainting in lonely country houses." She also found interest in the sea but only because it was stormy. But all the things that Emma found interest in she soon became bored of, as she did Charles and Leon. This progression of images of confinement, escape, and chaos, parallel on her education and her life as Emma’s journey from boredom in reality to self-destruction in fantasy....
