The Awakening Essay
“The takeaway is that only you know who you were born to be, and you need to be free to be that person,” Ruby Rose. In other words, Ruby Rose believes that you should be free to be whoever you want to be. Society should not have to decide who you are supposed to be. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening describes how society has certain expectations for females, taking care of their children or doing housework. Chopin uses symbols to describe the character’s , Edna, awakening to being independent and breaking the expectations. The symbols are, birds, art, children, and the sea. She explains how gender roles should not define people. One of the symbols she uses to make people understand is the arts. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin writes, “It was offensive to her, that the woman, by her divine art, seemed to reach Edna’s spirit and set it free.” In other words Chopin is explaining how Mademoiselle Reisz makes Edna want to be free, and it makes Edna scared because of how society will see her if she breaks any expectations. Chopin herself writes, “Edna was sobbing, just as she had wept one midnight at Grand Isle when strange, new voices awoke her.” After Mademoiselle Reisz played, Edna started crying because it kind of awoke her to reality. It was one of the many moments …show more content…
Throughout the book she gives small symbols and clues that symbolize Edna’s life and her awakening to a life out of the expectations. At the time Chopin published her book The Awakening, everyone felt offended by all the feminism, but they might have just been scared that she was right. People started realizing and speaking up about how she was right and how society does not have the right to chose how you are. There might still be some problems on stereotyping and expectations, but there will be one day when someone can be whoever they want without being judged by
“The takeaway is that only you know who you were born to be, and you need to be free to be that person,” Ruby Rose. In other words, Ruby Rose believes that you should be free to be whoever you want to be. Society should not have to decide who you are supposed to be. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening describes how society has certain expectations for females, taking care of their children or doing housework. Chopin uses symbols to describe the character’s , Edna, awakening to being independent and breaking the expectations. The symbols are, birds, art, children, and the sea. She explains how gender roles should not define people. One of the symbols she uses to make people understand is the arts. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin writes, “It was offensive to her, that the woman, by her divine art, seemed to reach Edna’s spirit and set it free.” In other words Chopin is explaining how Mademoiselle Reisz makes Edna want to be free, and it makes Edna scared because of how society will see her if she breaks any expectations. Chopin herself writes, “Edna was sobbing, just as she had wept one midnight at Grand Isle when strange, new voices awoke her.” After Mademoiselle Reisz played, Edna started crying because it kind of awoke her to reality. It was one of the many moments …show more content…
Throughout the book she gives small symbols and clues that symbolize Edna’s life and her awakening to a life out of the expectations. At the time Chopin published her book The Awakening, everyone felt offended by all the feminism, but they might have just been scared that she was right. People started realizing and speaking up about how she was right and how society does not have the right to chose how you are. There might still be some problems on stereotyping and expectations, but there will be one day when someone can be whoever they want without being judged by