For Edna, independence seemingly went hand in hand with solitude. It seems that Edna could never quite grasp what it meant to be "independent."" Although for some it means being alone most of the time, hardly ever does it mean severing ties with people one holds close to one's heart. In my own opinion, Edna made all the wrong choices. She had the idea of independence in her head, but no matter what she did to try to attain that goal, nothing she did was right in the eyes of the society around her. She made these bad choices out of nothing more than ignorance; she did not know what she wanted, she just knew that she wanted something, anything other than what she had, or rather, what she didn't have. Falling in love with several men, none of whom were her husband, sending her children away, moving out of her house, not continuing with her passion for painting, suicide; in all of these circumstances, and more, an example of indecisiveness and the desire to renounce something is present.
My main reasoning for her sudden independence was that she was all along treated like a doll: " You are burnt beyond recognition, he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage- (Chopin 201). It seems that Edna wanted to disconnect herself from that idea of being something owned by someone else by not letting anyone tell her what to do or think.
This urgency to be something more than what she was wasn't always in her head. In chapter six, it states, "[a] certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her [ ]- (Chopin 214). This light inside of Edna was the start of her realization that she could be more than what she was inscribed to be "more than just a wife and mother. She now yearns to be something other than a servant to her husband and children.
During this time period, it wasn't easy being a woman, or a married woman at that, let alone being a married woman with children.
The Awakening Women in the 19th century were not treated like equals. Nowhere was this no evident then in Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening. ... I interpreted this as Edna had everything that she ever wanted and lost it which, drove her to just give up. The Awakening is filled with symbols throughout the story. ... There is also symbolism in the name of the book The Awakening. ...
Edna Pontellier, the protagonist in Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, undergoes several stages of awakening. ... Thus, she attempts to commit herself fully to her awakening sense of self. ... Edna's first outward act in affirmation of her awakening and in repudiation of societal convention and gender roles comes immediately following her initial awakening after swimming in the ocean for the first time. ... The reader is left to interpret Edna's departure after Madame Lebrun's continued invitations to stay as a necessary escape from being dragged back into the patriarc...
Written between the autumn of 1890 and spring of the next year, "Spring Awakening" was the first major play in the modern era of theater. ... In "Spring Awakening," Sater alluded to some of the most important writers such as Homer, Baudelaire, Racine and Shakespeare. ... Achilles and Patroclus had a deep and meaningful friendship, which had been interpreted by some readers to be an egalitarian homosexual pairing. In Spring Awakening, Hanschen played to seduce his friend Ernst and this one in not insensitive to the charms oh his friend. ... The third important writer mentioned in Spring Awak...
Awakenings Exploited people in the world have always had struggles in finding their voice. ... This battle is delicately illustrated in Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening. ... Many controversies have risen among different schools of criticism concerning the ending of The Awakening. ... I interpreted Edna taking her own life as a release or an escape for her. ... Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, follows a young woman on her journey to autonomy. ...
His poem "Sleep" can be interpreted mainly in one of two ways. ... The second and third stanzas of the poem, depicts the journey founded through the transitioning from sleep to their awakening. ... Despite the second and third stanza mainly identifying with the journey of a foetus, the last stanza of the poem provides the depiction of the awakening of not only the child but also the sleeper. The symbolism of the word, "daylight," defines the awakening of not only the child as it enters the light of the real world, but also the awakening of an individual after a night of sle...
An Awakening That Changed My Life Over the 20 year span of my life, there have been times I've looked back on particular situations I struggled with and instantly get an understanding of what I should have done or a realization of what was really going on. Most of them have been small things that alone are trivial, but the combination of many led me to powerful awakening. ... There will always be the part of me deep down who values the importance of appearance and social acceptance, but that longer rules my life and I am able to interpret when those are important and when they just ...
Kate Chopin's The Awakening (1899) carried ou the same theme of struggling women in a dominant/submissive relationship. ... The Awakening tells the story of a middle class woman, Edna Pontelliar who lives in New Orleans. ... Edna, as the narrator in The Awakening, is not satisfied with her marriage based on a dominant/submissive relationship. ... Art plays a very important role in the life as the narrator in The Awakening. ...
