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Edna deeply desires to fulfill her sexual wants. Although the desires are not the same we see both woman go behind society’s back not opening how they are to fulfill their desires to the public. At the beginning of the play Macbeth the reader views Lady Macbeth as a relentless person with no weakness but by the end of the play we know that the murders she is covering up from society takes a major toll on her. In comparison Edna is strong when she moves out of her husbands house but is worn down by external forces of her society not allowing her to fulfill her sexual hungers. In both writings the women commit suicide because they cannot bear the rules of society any longer. The death of each woman is revolves around the conflict they were having. In Macbeth Lady Macbeth screams as if she is being murder by someone else, “Macbeth: Wherefore was that cry? Seyton: The Queen, my lord, is dead.”(Shakespeare 177). In The Awakening Edna kills herself by swimming into the ocean
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Just as Lady Macbeth’s only way to freedom is killing herself, Edna feels that the ocean will be her way to freedom. By comparing their personalities side by side we can see they are almost identical and that Shakespeare’s work Macbeth truly affects the writing of Chopin in The Awakening. Another comparison between Lady Macbeth and Edna can be made in their awakenings. Lady Macbeth awakens with an evil ambition when she is told of the witch’s prophecies that Macbeth will become king. When Edna experiences her awakening see craves for sexual attention and self-liberation from her husband.
“The years that are gone seem like dreams—if one might go on sleeping and dreaming—but to wake up and find—oh! well! Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life”. (Chopin 292)
Edna’s awakening in the end causes her to suffer but it frees her from husband. These awakenings lead them both Lady Macbeth and Edna in s similar way to …show more content…
Enda Pontellier finds herself in the same situation at the end of The Awakening, with a melancholy existence and nothing left to live for: “There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.”(Chopin146). She goes through the motions the last few days before she makes her trip into the deep seas. Macbeth lives his last few hours with a sense of hopelessness, which Chopin entwines as a basic sentiment for
Just as Lady Macbeth’s only way to freedom is killing herself, Edna feels that the ocean will be her way to freedom. By comparing their personalities side by side we can see they are almost identical and that Shakespeare’s work Macbeth truly affects the writing of Chopin in The Awakening. Another comparison between Lady Macbeth and Edna can be made in their awakenings. Lady Macbeth awakens with an evil ambition when she is told of the witch’s prophecies that Macbeth will become king. When Edna experiences her awakening see craves for sexual attention and self-liberation from her husband.
“The years that are gone seem like dreams—if one might go on sleeping and dreaming—but to wake up and find—oh! well! Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life”. (Chopin 292)
Edna’s awakening in the end causes her to suffer but it frees her from husband. These awakenings lead them both Lady Macbeth and Edna in s similar way to …show more content…
Enda Pontellier finds herself in the same situation at the end of The Awakening, with a melancholy existence and nothing left to live for: “There was no despondency when she fell asleep that night; nor was there hope when she awoke in the morning.”(Chopin146). She goes through the motions the last few days before she makes her trip into the deep seas. Macbeth lives his last few hours with a sense of hopelessness, which Chopin entwines as a basic sentiment for