Sarah Newell
Mrs. Hans
Edna Drowns
Thesis Statement: In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, protagonist Edna Pontellier struggles with her identity internally, thus creating a ripple effect in the inability to confirm or disprove her morality at first glance; her indecisiveness about herself leaks onto how surrounding characters and the society in context perceive her.
TS#1: Because Edna is relatively introspective, she is aware of the interior change that occurs between her in the time submerged in the Creole culture of Grand Isle to her return to daily life in New Orleans, Louisiana; However, she is blind to locating the cause of this change, which brings her moral ambiguity to the surface.
Evid#1: Edna’s loyalties do not seem to lie with her children as she “was not a mother-woman” for those “were women who idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals;” three characteristics that she may have once possessed, but no longer left a trace for reasons she cannot explain (8). …show more content…
TS#2: Edna’s representation as what a woman could be- independent- goes against not only the wishes of her husband Leonce, but also other members of her community and her society’s belief as to the mother-figure that she should embrace, causing her morals to seem self-centered to others because of her own confusion.
Evid#1: Edna’s behavior seemed so preposterous and befuddling to Leonce that he felt the need to consult the family physician to find out “what ails her”
Mrs. Hans
Edna Drowns
Thesis Statement: In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, protagonist Edna Pontellier struggles with her identity internally, thus creating a ripple effect in the inability to confirm or disprove her morality at first glance; her indecisiveness about herself leaks onto how surrounding characters and the society in context perceive her.
TS#1: Because Edna is relatively introspective, she is aware of the interior change that occurs between her in the time submerged in the Creole culture of Grand Isle to her return to daily life in New Orleans, Louisiana; However, she is blind to locating the cause of this change, which brings her moral ambiguity to the surface.
Evid#1: Edna’s loyalties do not seem to lie with her children as she “was not a mother-woman” for those “were women who idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals;” three characteristics that she may have once possessed, but no longer left a trace for reasons she cannot explain (8). …show more content…
TS#2: Edna’s representation as what a woman could be- independent- goes against not only the wishes of her husband Leonce, but also other members of her community and her society’s belief as to the mother-figure that she should embrace, causing her morals to seem self-centered to others because of her own confusion.
Evid#1: Edna’s behavior seemed so preposterous and befuddling to Leonce that he felt the need to consult the family physician to find out “what ails her”