Kendy Cordova 10/25/17
Mr. Amoroso English Societal expectations are one of those things that you always want to meet. But what happens when those expectations are not be meet? For hundreds of years, women have had their path laid out for them, stripped from their rights, and have been under the oppression of society. The idea of the traditional women still exists to this day, the wife that stays home and does all chores and takes care of the kids. In The Awakening written by Kate Chopin, she exploits the different perspectives and the different women that live under this spell created by society. The protagonist Edna Pontellier has an internal war, between who and what she wants to be or who society wants …show more content…
Mademoiselle Reisz views the world differently as opposed to Ratignolle. She is one of the very few women who stood up and didn’t let society dictate or create a path for her. Reisz creates her own path through music. Every tone, beat, and harmony all speak for themselves when Reisz is on the piano. Her music harmonizes with Edna, when she hears Reisz play her inner emotions are awoken. Reisz’s music represents freedom, a feeling that Edna has never felt before. The same emotions Edna felt when hearing this music, she feels when she paints. Edna’s paintings make her feel as if she was the only soul walking amongst the earth and no one could stop her. This was sign that Edna was slowly slipping away from under society’s spell. Reisz notices that Edna is a courageous, defiant, and passionate woman. Especially in the way she wants to break the system. She once requested Reisz to play a song, a song that Edna herself renamed “Solitude”. “When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore. He was naked. His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging his flight away from him.” (Chopin 25) As Edna begins to discover who she is and where she belongs in society, thoughts start to wander in her head. This foreshadows Edna’s death, her suicide, in which she takes off
Mr. Amoroso English Societal expectations are one of those things that you always want to meet. But what happens when those expectations are not be meet? For hundreds of years, women have had their path laid out for them, stripped from their rights, and have been under the oppression of society. The idea of the traditional women still exists to this day, the wife that stays home and does all chores and takes care of the kids. In The Awakening written by Kate Chopin, she exploits the different perspectives and the different women that live under this spell created by society. The protagonist Edna Pontellier has an internal war, between who and what she wants to be or who society wants …show more content…
Mademoiselle Reisz views the world differently as opposed to Ratignolle. She is one of the very few women who stood up and didn’t let society dictate or create a path for her. Reisz creates her own path through music. Every tone, beat, and harmony all speak for themselves when Reisz is on the piano. Her music harmonizes with Edna, when she hears Reisz play her inner emotions are awoken. Reisz’s music represents freedom, a feeling that Edna has never felt before. The same emotions Edna felt when hearing this music, she feels when she paints. Edna’s paintings make her feel as if she was the only soul walking amongst the earth and no one could stop her. This was sign that Edna was slowly slipping away from under society’s spell. Reisz notices that Edna is a courageous, defiant, and passionate woman. Especially in the way she wants to break the system. She once requested Reisz to play a song, a song that Edna herself renamed “Solitude”. “When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore. He was naked. His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging his flight away from him.” (Chopin 25) As Edna begins to discover who she is and where she belongs in society, thoughts start to wander in her head. This foreshadows Edna’s death, her suicide, in which she takes off