Summary and Evaluation of the Critical Essay by Carole Stone
Carole Stone begins acknowledging the other side and how she will work to prove them with her article. Stone starts off speaking how Edna’s memories, encounter with the sea, and search for a motherly figure are “emblems of regression in the service of progression” toward being an artist. The final step Edna takes to be an “autonomous human being” is seeing “through the delusion of romantic love” after witnessing Adèle give birth (Stone). Carole Stone then moves onto displaying the immense contrast between Adèle and Mme. Reisz and how they both-also including Robert and Alcée- contributed to various awakenings in Edna such as her “self-expression” and “sexual autonomy”. Edna’s first …show more content…
Her death also gave the power of “wholeness” that she couldn’t find in her lifetime even if she did continue to live her life (Stone). Just like society wasn’t ready to be modernized, they weren’t ready to witness it or “accept her [Edna’s] newfound self” either (Stone). Therefore, suicide was genuinely the sole choice Edna had to relish in her difficult discovery she “will not relinquish”, according to Anne Jones featured in Stone’s criticism. I also believe Edna died in the sea on behalf of it being the place to commence her rise for freedom just like the circle of life therefore constituting the greater meaning of Edna’s rebirth. Yet, I disagree that Chopin is displaying adversities faced by women who only “wish to become artists” (Stone). I believe The Awakening displays “triumph” with Chopin’s depiction of afflictions women had to endure who wished for independence not “to become artists” (Stone). A character who truly exhibits this meaning Stone desires to exemplify about troubled artists is Mme. Reisz not Edna. Mme. Reisz is actually a master of her artistic talent who confronts hardships from society on the basis that she would rather focus on creating music than settling down to marry and have a family like conformity
Carole Stone begins acknowledging the other side and how she will work to prove them with her article. Stone starts off speaking how Edna’s memories, encounter with the sea, and search for a motherly figure are “emblems of regression in the service of progression” toward being an artist. The final step Edna takes to be an “autonomous human being” is seeing “through the delusion of romantic love” after witnessing Adèle give birth (Stone). Carole Stone then moves onto displaying the immense contrast between Adèle and Mme. Reisz and how they both-also including Robert and Alcée- contributed to various awakenings in Edna such as her “self-expression” and “sexual autonomy”. Edna’s first …show more content…
Her death also gave the power of “wholeness” that she couldn’t find in her lifetime even if she did continue to live her life (Stone). Just like society wasn’t ready to be modernized, they weren’t ready to witness it or “accept her [Edna’s] newfound self” either (Stone). Therefore, suicide was genuinely the sole choice Edna had to relish in her difficult discovery she “will not relinquish”, according to Anne Jones featured in Stone’s criticism. I also believe Edna died in the sea on behalf of it being the place to commence her rise for freedom just like the circle of life therefore constituting the greater meaning of Edna’s rebirth. Yet, I disagree that Chopin is displaying adversities faced by women who only “wish to become artists” (Stone). I believe The Awakening displays “triumph” with Chopin’s depiction of afflictions women had to endure who wished for independence not “to become artists” (Stone). A character who truly exhibits this meaning Stone desires to exemplify about troubled artists is Mme. Reisz not Edna. Mme. Reisz is actually a master of her artistic talent who confronts hardships from society on the basis that she would rather focus on creating music than settling down to marry and have a family like conformity