Psychology In The Movie Awakenings

The novel The Awakening is an empowering masterpiece that shows a woman stepping out of the social norm to find her bliss. Edna Pontellier is expected to be the perfect wife and perfect mother. The needs of her husband and children are supposed to triumph over her own. She is well ahead of her time because she wants independence and to live her life to the fullest. In Chopin’s story, not only is there a daring young woman who is on the hunt to find her independence, but there is also a housewife, whose life belongs to her family.

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.

The humanly gift of imagination is a unique power within that subconsciously is a locomotor to both the body and spirit to a person 's individual Elysium. It goes far and beyond our cognition into an exuberant fantasy molded by our wants and desires, reaching untamed worlds. Turning imagination into realism is denounced as an impossible being, but it 's in fact the awakening to our lucid dreaming. Edna Pontellier is a woman with a heart that soared beyond the horizons into a limitless world, forced into cage by the inevitable way of life. Kate Chopin through the beautifully sculpted novel “The Awakening” condemned Edna with a mindset beyond her years, finding meaning through her unsocial actions shunned by the eyes of others. Edna used her

As the novel progresses, Edna is able to escape from the hands of Leonce Pontellier, and she moves into a small house down the street in which she calls the pigeon house. The symbol of the bird is used here by saying she may be able to release herself from Leonce but she isn’t able to release herself from society, that she if forever trapped. In the end of the novel, before Edna’s tragedy, a bird with a broken wing crashes into the sea. This bird can be connected with the advice that Mademoiselle Reisz told Edna that she needed strong wings to soar. The connection for shadows Edna’s tragedy, and reveals her complete failure to find complete freedom and happiness.

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.

In Kate Chopin’s novel, The Awakening a wife and a mother of two, Edna Pontellier, discovers her desires as a woman to live life to the fullest extent and to find her true self. Eventually, her discovery leads to friction between friends, family, and the dominant values of society. Through Chopin's use of Author’s craft and literary elements, the readers have a clear comprehension as to what the author is conveying.

Sacrifices can define one’s character; the definition can either be the highest dignity or the lowest degradation of the value of one’s life. In The Awakening, Kate Chopin implicitly conveys the sacrifice Edna Pontellier makes in the life which provides insight of her character and attributions to her “awakening.” She sacrificed her past of a lively and youthful life and compressed it to a domestic and reserved lifestyle of housewife picturesque. However, she meets multiple acquaintances who help her express her dreams and true identity. Mrs. Pontellier’s sacrifice established her awakening to be defiant and drift away from the societal role of an obedient mother, as well as, highlighting the difference between society’s expectations of

Kate Chopin’s The Awakening is an artfully written romance novel that takes place during the nineteenth century off the coast of Louisiana. The main character- Edna Pontellier- is put into what would be considered typical circumstances: being viewed as property by her husband, fills her empty days with social visits and the arts, and is a mother. Besides these regularities, Edna Pontellier is unique for her time period. Edna does not necessarily love her children, even views them as a hindrance, nor does she truly love her husband. Edna likes to be her own individual as if born in the wrong century, she strives for the freedoms that her society and life situation do not make available to her. Robert Lebrun- a dear friend of Edna- is the one person that she truly loves in her life. Unfortunately, while Robert’s emotions match Edna’s, he does not know how to properly act in response to them. Conflicted, Robert runs away to Mexico in order to avoid confronting his feelings and leaves Edna lost and heartbroken. During Robert’s absence, Edna’s pull to him does not disappear, rather she finds herself leaving her husband and making her own salary by selling her artwork. Robert, however, does return to Edna only to leave once more leaving only a note to say goodbye. Ultimately, Edna kills herself in response to Robert’s actions.

Throughout The Awakening, a novel by Kate Chopin, the main character, Edna Pontellier showed signs of a growing depression. There are certain events that hasten this, events which eventually lead her to suicide.

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.

There are always losses to each pleasant situation and unfortunately in the 1990 film directed by Penny Marshall, Awakenings, this theme appears throughout. In a chronically ill hospital where Dr. Malcolm Sayer is recruited with little to no experience with people, he works with multiple patients that are in a sleep-like state including Mr. Leonard Lowe. Set in the late sixties, there were not many medical advances that already existed to help these patients but Dr. Sayer makes unheard-of discoveries. Many awakenings occur in this film, but with these renewals comes gains and losses. Dr. Sayer, the staff, and the patients inhabited in this Brooklyn hospital gain and lose different things with their explorations.

Awakenings is a 1973 nonfiction book by Oliver Sacks later on in 1990 became a film directed by Penny Marshall. The movie is based on Oliver Sacks's memoir which tells the story of encephalitic lethargica survivors as they undergo treatment with Dr.Sacks. He treated his patients with the then-new drug L-DOPA which was being used to treat Parkinson’s disease. Dr.Sacks believed that the encephalitic lethargica patients had suffered from a form of Parkinson’s that was so advanced which caused them to freeze and become statue like.

After the death of his estranged father, a troubled former military sniper suffering from PTSD travels to Wyoming to his father’s home, but his increasingly irrational behavior begins to scare and alienate his girlfriend.

The movie Awakenings is directed by Penny Marshall in the year 1990. Given the title Awakenings, the movie was about the dream of a doctor named Dr. Malcolm Sayer portrayed by Robin Willliams, whose goal is to cure the survivors of the outbreak of Encephalitis Lethargica and was paralyzed by Parkinson’s disease for decades. Dr. Sayer treated them by a miracle drug: Levo-dopa that was able to revive them again. After these awakenings, the true problems unveil, between the benefits and the counter side effects of the drug and the patients that weren’t able to accept the reality in time they have missed. This is some of the different factors of the movie that contributed to inspire works Dr. Sayer throughout the movie, which is the purpose of this paper.

Nothing could ever make him stop loving her, not even his own nephew and nothing will stop him from pursuing her, not even the fact that she does not love him. His desire is so twisted that it made him lose his moral compass. If Rosa wasn’t affianced to Edwin but to someone else’s Jasper could maybe even try something to make her leave her fiancé, but this way the situation was hopeless. The norms of behaviour toward family members were forbidding him to mention his love to her; moreover he did not want to cause pain to his boy so he suffered in silence, or at least he thought he was. For that reason only when Edwin was gone for a year Jasper raises courage and confesses his love to the girl, unaware of the fact that she already knows. "I endured