Flaubert conveys Emma’s strange un-humankind behavior as a cry for help to leave the setting of domestication. Flaubert gives Emma two horse traits when she seems to be under someone’s control. The first horse trait appears while Emma lives at the convent, she’s described as “she did as tightly reined horses; she pulled up short and the bit slipped from her teeth” (Flaubert 26). A convent is a place where a Christian woman solely choose to serve Christ and only Christ. Emma enters and leaves the convent as a completely different woman. At first, Emma searches for organization and control in her life, but later on discovers she doesn’t want be to under control. Emma refuses to be domesticated by anything or anyone which means she breaks French
