The Awakening

Living as a woman in a male dominated world is a burden for Edna in “The Awakening.” She is bound in the chains of society to serve as a housekeeper and wife. Despite the chains that bind her, Edna’s free spirit seeks equality. These chains placed around her serve as a primary focus for the novel; especially when she takes her own life in the process of freeing herself. Edna from “The Awakening” is a modern woman who seeks personal freedom which goes against the archaic time that she resides in…

A character wants to have a new desirable life. But all of that is being sunken down by society and men’s view plus personality. That is how Edna feels throughout out her marriage life. In The Awakening, the male characters viewed Edna from a different perspective from a good relationship, to ones that is not working for her. Also, they all treated her in different ways that affected her life as a curse if it was not for them. Leonce Pontellier, Edna’s husband, is the first male character…

In Part two of the novel Edna’s awakening is beginning to make her become cancerous and destructive to herself and her family. Edna’s appearance and role as a mother seems to be very short lived. The nanny in the story begins to take on the role of being the main care taker of Edna’s children. Edna becomes more conscious of the fact that she is begging to fall in love with Robert. But is suddenly struck with the truth of Robert’s abrupt decision to leave for Mexico. At first it seemed as if…

LOU UNFOLDED THE TOURIST MAP and eyed a man over the rim of the creased paper. A boxy man with a crooked nose and a single bushy brow stood on the harbor dock, smoking a cigarette. He draped an arm around a woman’s shoulder while he joked with another guy twice his size, a hairy bear as wide as he was tall. The woman was a little more than a caricature to Lou. Big hair and a big mouth, made bigger by the annoying smack of bubblegum between her magenta lips. Her clothes were too tight in some…

negative act is your decision, and your decision alone. Edna dies giving her life, but not herself. She chose, for the first time, her own Fate. That’s what makes her final act freeing, and not an act of despair. In The Awakening, the sea in particular is a critical factor in Edna’s awakening and death. The sea is full of uncertainty for many, but for Edna, it represents empowerment, opportunities, and freedom from social circumstances. Chopin uses sea imagery to represent Edna’s strength.…

The Second Great Awakening that swept across the United States in the 1800s, had a unifying effect on the nation; especially the inclusion of Black Americans and women in leadership. As Tindall and Shi comment, “[the revivals] bridged many social, economic, political, and even racial divisions. Women especially flocked to the rural revivals and sustained religious life on the frontier” (Tindall and Shi 387-388). The inclusion of Black Americans and women in the Second Great Awakening gave fuel…

Even the greatest literary masterpieces have critics and criticisms. The Awakening by Kate Chopin is not an exception. Christina R. Williams literary criticism of The Awakening titled, “Reading Beyond Modern Feminism: Kate Chopin’s The Awakening” is an accurate and fair judgment of the Chopin’s work. The positions taken in the criticism are all ones that support my own analysis of the book. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is frequently mentioned to be an early novel of feminism. While the book has…

Edna, scorning Leonce’s attitude. In his position as the man of the house Leonce considers Edna as “a valuable piece of property” who has to represent his status. Through his behavior he initiates the mood which begins that start of Edna Pontellier awakening. As the novel continues it becomes clear that neither wife nor husband love the each other anymore. “Her marriage to Leonce Pontellier was purely an accident” and because her defiance against her father she has to live with that mistake and…

Doctorow’s The Book of Daniel, Chopin’s The Awakening, and Coates’s Between the World and Me are novels which collectively focus on the re-invention of aspects of spiritual and psychological renewal. Moreover, the main characters in each of these stories are depicted as “aliens” or individuals who are isolated and struggle to explore their sense of self in repressive societies. Daniel (the psychic alien), Edna (the gender alien), and Coates (the racial alien) indeed each confront unique overt…

Great Awakening 1730-1740 The Great Awakening helped lead to the American Revolution because it made the colonists realize that they could have the religious power in their own hands rather than in those of the Church of England. The colonists started to develop a vision of freedom from British rule French and Indian War 1754 – 1763 The French and Indian war influenced the American Revolution because the British victory in the war had a great impact on the British Empire. First it meant an…