... of the same sex) as partners in a relationship. Yet in the 1800s marriage was just seen as an investment. The Awakening by Kate Chopin illustrates how marriage is used to define who and what a woman is but can also cause a woman to rebel from the social norm. Women could have no sense of self, nor did they have rights to their ... woman of twenty-eight "perhaps more wisdom than the Holy Ghost is usually pleased to vouchsafe to any woman.  But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge fro...

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... sexuality directly, without fear" (Ward 5). The Creole women prove to Edna that it is okay to speak and think about one's own feelings. With this knowledge she begins to "acknowledge, define, and articulate her emotions" (Ward 5). She also begins to "rebel instinctively against the narrowness of her upbringing, which has forced her to hide her opinions and criticisms" (MacDonald 2): "At a very ... Cited » Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. 1899. New York...

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