In Eurydice and The Awakening, Sarah Ruhl and Kate Chopin use similar and different ways to describe the protagonists. Eurydice is furious as she is left in Hades and Edna is hopeless when her husband controls her. Throughout the text, indirect characterization demonstrates how the protagonists feel. Eurydice has a different feeling then Edna when it comes to Leonce controlling her. Edna is constantly alert with, “no sleepy shadows”. Edna wants to control herself but has a hard time with Leonce. Similarly, it irritates Eurydice that Orpheus controls her faith. Eurydice wants to understand why he would, “turn back, that hell should be reinhabited of myself…”. She is furious with the decision he makes and is livid with how she cannot control
