Awakened Reality - Original Writing

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, is the story of a woman who is seeking freedom. Edna Pontellier feels confined in her role as mother and wife and finds freedom in her romantic interest, Robert Lebrun. Although she views Robert as her liberator, he is the ultimate cause of her demise. Edna sees Robert as an image of freedom, which brings her to rebel against her role in society. This pursuit of freedom, however, causes her death. Chopin uses many images to clarify the relationship between Robert and Edna and to show that Robert is the cause of both her freedom and her destruction.

In Chopin’s novel, The Awakening, she writes about a woman’s desire to find and live fully within her true self during the 1890s in Louisiana. The woman, Edna Pontellier, is trying to find herself in the masculine society of Louisiana, leading her to cause friction with friends, family and the Creole society. Edna begins to feel a change; she begins to feel like a whole person with wants, interests and desires. She learns that she is not comfortable with being a wife and mother. The imagery of the parrot in the cage in Chopin’s novel is being compared to Edna because it represents Edna’s unspoken feelings and imprisonment. The sense of unspoken feelings and imprisonment of Edna causes her to put her own needs before her family. As Edna finds herself trying to satisfy the Creole society, she begins to feel isolated and confused. Through Edna’s trace of freedom, she begins to undergo a transformation of self, slowly straying away from society, and taking control over her own actions and beliefs. Through obstacles to Edna’s freedom, she learns that she does have control of her own body. The symbolism of the birds and the sea is used to symbolize Edna’s struggle for independence.

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The First Awakening began as an idea of evangelical minister Theodore Frelinghuysen, however, didn’t begin to impact society until many itinerant preachers such as Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards began traveling throughout New England preaching against church hierarchies telling people what to do and having their relationships with God. Both the First and Second Awakenings reflected changes in religious belief, and as ministers preached different theologies than those of the past significant social changes caused an increase in religious passion and brought a revival to Christian thinking.

She shouldn’t have let her husband's passing hold onto her so much like it did. When my mother left, I had no family around to cope with. I thought I’d always have my sister by my side. After all that we’ve been through I never thought she’d leave.

In the beginning of the book, Arnold started off feeling a bit hopeless in a way. Up to chapter 14 Arnold began to be more confident about his abilities. An example of Arnold feeling hopeless is on page 13 where Arnold says “It sucks to be poor, and it sucks to feel that you somehow deserve to be poor…” In that paragraph he was feeling hopeless about his life on the rez. An example that describes Arnold being more confident is on page 45 when he decides to transfer to Reardan “‘I want to go to Reardan,’ I said”. Even though he knew he was going to be discriminated, he took the chance to a better future. It’s important that he does this because he’s doing what he has to do to achieve his dreams. What helps Arnold make his decision is when his

She was not the most perfect person but her personality and the way she talked made everyone want to be like her. Anyone she talks to can hear her talk for hours. Growing up she did not have an easy life style. She struggled often but she always made the best out of everything. She cherished her life and all the little things that came with it. She always worked hard for everything she wanted and needed and I looked up to her because of that. I yearned for her life. Middle age women living in the big beautiful city of opportunity and working for the department of health in New York. That was everything I wanted.

The contrast between an urban and a tropical setting represents the awakening that the protagonist experiences in Kate Chopin's classic novel, The Awakening. At Grand Isle Edna becomes conscious of her restrictive marriage in a male dominated society. Her awakening originates with her experiences at Grand Isle but fully develops upon her return to the city, where she completes her transformation from her roles as wife and mother to an independent woman.

The alarm went blaring off and I wasn’t ready. I was not quite done packing up there wasn’t much left to be done. As I put in the last of things into a box with my name I carried it up the stairs and outside into the pile that was going into the car. As the time went by I looked back to what we were going to be leaving behind. All the empty rooms filled with the past. I was neutral about the whole thing. I realized I was more scared than sad about leaving. I wouldn’t know anything or anyone. I had settled just fine here in Littleton. The last of things went into the car, not like there was a whole bunch we were taking with us as we were starting fresh. We stood in the parking lot, my whole family. Our conversations had to come to an end as

Feminism is the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. This means that every gender is agreeing in value, has equal roles, equal pay, and not one dominating the other. This novel is about how Edna begins to make her own rules and not follow society and it did not matter if anyone stood with her she had no problem standing alone. Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is a feminist novel, because it explores her awakening and her journey in becoming an independent woman.

I've been here three days, and every morning this has happened, I'm forced to remember my mother's death and all the feelings that had come with it, all over again. "Yeah, um, it is." I tell her. A warm tear falls slowly down my freckled cheek, hits my lips and spreads across my mouth. I'm so tired of her persistent nagging, that perhaps I'll leave the house today. I could go on a walk or something,

In “‘A Language Which Nobody Understood’: Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening,” Patricia Yaeger questions the feminist assumption that Edna Pontellier’s adulterous behavior represent a radical challenge to patriarchal values. Using a deconstructionist method, Yaeger argues that in the novel adultery functions not as a disrupting agent of, but, rather, as a counterweight to the institution of marriage, reinforcing the very idea it purports to subvert by framing female desire within “an elaborate code [of moral conduct] that has already been negotiated by her society.” A reading of The Awakening that can envision only two possible outcomes for its heroine – acquiescence to her role as

How do you differentiate the selfish from the selfless? A person can be characterized as such if they do things for their own profit or pleasure. They live to please themselves. Women who rebel against all oppression and discriminating stereotypes are often praised for this fearless selflessness. These women give other women hope for a future where they will be considered equal to men. They rise against all oppression that is wrong and unjust. In the novel The Awakening Edna Pontellier is seen as a feminist, her rebellion to everything she believed was oppression marked an impression on the readers. Yet is it correct to refer to Edna as a feminist? Does she rebel against oppression for the good of the oppressed female society? Are her acts of rebellion justifiable?

How do you differentiate the selfish from the selfless? A person can be characterized as such if they do things for their own profit or pleasure. They live to please themselves. Women who rebel against all oppression and discriminating stereotypes are often praised for this fearless selflessness. These women give other women hope for a future where they will be considered equal to men. They rise against all oppression that is wrong and unjust. In the novel The Awakening Edna Pontellier is seen as a feminist, her rebellion to everything she believed was oppression marked an impression on the readers. Yet is it correct to refer to Edna as a feminist? Does she rebel against oppression for the good of the oppressed female society? Are her acts of rebellion justifiable?

In The Awakening, author Kate Chopin uses a narrative voice that shifts between the third person limited, recounting Edna Pontellier’s innermost thoughts and feelings and the third person omniscient, that examines the perception of her by the people closest to her while she is absent, to recount the tale of Edna Pontellier. Using these two alternating narrative voices allows for the absence of Edna in certain scenes, this allows for the reader to experience her through the eyes of the people around her, and ultimately gain a deeper, more comprehensive, understanding of the inner and outer forces that shaped her perception of life and marriage.