The theme of change in Madame BovaryChange is a central theme of the novel Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, and is the key to understanding the character of Emma Bovary. Through parallel events, the reader realizes that Emma's need for change is the result of the influence her childhood had on her. At the convent, Emma transforms into an extreme romantic with high hopes for excitement and dreams of sensual pleasures that will never come true. So when life refuses to conform to her romantic conceptions, Emma alternates between various activities in her constant search for a way to satisfy her romantic desires. As a country girl, Emma was placed in a convent in the city. Here Emma develops and receives nourishment for her already sentimental soul. She looks at the “copper crosses,” the “sick lamb,” and the “mystical altar” with the vigor of a scholar in search of knowledge. She listens attentively to “the sonorous lamentations of romantic melancholy” which “awakened unexpected joys in her”. Emma, ​​isolated from the outside world, finds herself alone to develop her capricious dreams that she reads in novels, acquiring hope of one day realizing these romantic and passionate desires. Emma devours books that involve "romantic woes, oaths, sobs, tears and kisses... gentlemen brave as lions, gentle as lambs" and always "incredibly virtuous." Due to Emma's isolation from everyday life, she develops a need for excitement and as a result cannot bear her own married life. Life with Charles just doesn't fit into the fictional accounts she reads. So Emma turns to the comfort of adultery and when passion is not readily available, she will resort to the middle of paper to look at Leon realistically without seeing all of his human imperfections. In this case, she quickly tires of him, like him. As her relationship with Léon progresses, she also understands that the lover she dreams of is a "man whose worldly existence [is] impossible." Following her childhood, Emma Bovary spends her entire life trying to escape her environment. class existence through dreams, loves and false pretensions. Emma constantly changes her activities, her surroundings, and her romantic situations in a desperate attempt to grasp the fairy tales she buried in her soul as a child. Although she aspired to the superficial and materialistic, Emma Bovary ended her life without ever compromising her vision of something greater than herself. Flaubert, Gustav. Madame Bovary (Lowell Bair, trans.). New York: Bantam Books 1996