A true awakening is when someone finds themselves, realizing what they want to accomplish in life and how they want to live their life. In the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the protagonist Edna Pontellier becomes aware and conscious of her life and what surrounded it. She finds herself, which makes her see the world around her differently. She realized that her life was held back by the role she stood within her family. Falling in love with a man who was not her husband was one of the many new experiences she acted out on. This led her to discover that there is much more to her than simply being a wife and mother. The title of the novel itself refers to the awakening of Edna, which adds a dramatic change in her life. Throughout the novel, Edna experiences a true awakening, however, the awakening she goes through leads to her death. Edna's awakening all started during the summer on Grand Isle where she becomes aware of how different it was being around Robert, the man she truly loved, than from her husband, Mr.
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Knowing where he/she stands will give them a chance to express themselves easier. Edna awakes from her old life and finds her new inner self. Before, she was not a person who would open up to people. She became a woman who expressed herself to others without caring if they thought she was unwomanly. Although Edna experiences a true awakening she ends up taking her life at the end of the novel because of her awakening. She does not want to return to her old life which was being the wife and mother that society expected her to be. Edna did not want to simply be a possession to anyone. Edna tells Robert, "If Mr. Pontellier were to say, ‘Here, Robert, take her; she is yours,’ I should laugh at both” (Chopin 108). Even though she loved Robert she would not want him to have her as a possession. What she wanted in life was freedom, she wanted to act on her
Knowing where he/she stands will give them a chance to express themselves easier. Edna awakes from her old life and finds her new inner self. Before, she was not a person who would open up to people. She became a woman who expressed herself to others without caring if they thought she was unwomanly. Although Edna experiences a true awakening she ends up taking her life at the end of the novel because of her awakening. She does not want to return to her old life which was being the wife and mother that society expected her to be. Edna did not want to simply be a possession to anyone. Edna tells Robert, "If Mr. Pontellier were to say, ‘Here, Robert, take her; she is yours,’ I should laugh at both” (Chopin 108). Even though she loved Robert she would not want him to have her as a possession. What she wanted in life was freedom, she wanted to act on her