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The Awakening: Edna - Online Term Paper

The Awakening: Edna

This is a look at "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin. When you first look
at the life of Edna you think there is not much to discuss. Edna is a married
woman who at first seems vaguely satisfied with her life--"she grew fond of her
husband, realizing with some unaccountable satisfaction that no trace of passion
or excessive and fictitious warmth colored her affection, thereby threatening
its dissolution." (Chopin, 558).
Edna doesn't know what she wants from life. It is evident from the way
she tries to change her life to make it better, that she wants her own happiness.
She refuses to stay home on Tuesdays, which she is expected to do to satisfy
the social conventions of the time. She ...

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or alive; when life
appeared to her like a grotesque
Pandemonium and humanity like worms struggling blindly toward inevitable
annihilation. (Chopin, 588)
Edna struggled to make her life more fulfilling. Edna wanted what?
Passion, excitement? She states to the Doctor, "But I don't want anything but
my own way. That is wanting a good deal, of course, when you have to trample
upon the lives, the hearts, the prejudices of others--but no matter--still, I
shouldn't want to trample upon the little lives." (Chopin, 629).
In the title of "The Awakening" I get the impression of someone waking
up and deciding that their life is not what they want. Edna goes from being
reasonably happy in her life to very unhappy with her life and tries to change
it to make it better. The ways she goes about it are not necessarily the right
ways, but at least she tries to change it to make it better.
The acceptable behaviors of the time in which she lived worked against
her. Edna stays married ...

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Added: 1/21/2008 08:05:28 PM
Category: Book Reports
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