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The Awakening. St. Louis: Herbert S. Stone and Co. 1899 womanhood is seen in the life of Edna, Edna is battling against the societal and common structures of parenthood that constrain her to be characterized by her title as spouse of Leonce Pontellier and mother of Raoul and Etienne Pontellier, rather than being her own, self-characterized person. Through Chopin 's concentrate on two other female characters, Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, Edna 's choices of life ways are …show more content…
Wide Sargasso Sea. New York: Norton, 1992 focuses more about the protagonist, Antoinette. The author discusses about womanhood in another style this time using a white woman who had to go through many suffrages that Celie, Sofia and Squeak went through. Antoinette turns internal, finding there a world that can be both serene and unnerving. In the initial segment of the novel we witness the improvement of a fragile youngster one who discovers shelter in the shut, secluded existence of the community. Her organized marriage upsets her, and she tries to cancel it, feeling intuitively that she will be harmed. To be sure, the marriage is a bungle of culture and custom. She and her English spouse, Mr. Rochester, neglect to identify with each other; and her past deeds, particularly her youth association with a half-rank sibling, sullies her better half 's perspective of her. An outcast inside her own family, a "white cockroach" (Rhys, Jean, and Charlotte Brontë, 1992) to her hateful hirelings, and a peculiarity per her own significant other, Antoinette can 't locate a serene place for