... 6 and 39 of Kate Chopin's story The Awakening, one is able to see that the author planned to depict the final scene to be tragic yet triumphant. Like Edna's final act in chapter 39, the first half of chapter 6 allows the reader to understand that Edna is lost in her search for individuality and freedom in her life. Perhaps the most apparent connection between the two chapters is the symbol and role of the sea which allows ... when she enters the water by lifting "her white body- instead of having someone or something do it for her (637). The ocean lets her make her own choices and bring...

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... then - impossibly - into the all-too-literal and present form of the monster itself whom Victor, immediately after this (dream) passage, sees upon awakening from his dream" (Collings 282). Further analyzing the dream, Collings states "clearly the turn from erotic ideal to grotesque body horrifies Victor, and in this respect he is a responsible citizen of the symbolic realm, longing for Elizabeth ... rather than the mother" (Collings 282). Freud defined condensation as having several ... in the light of day. When not with man, he is usually found in a climate of ice. Victor describes even...

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