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Sacrifice In The Awakening

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Sacrifice illuminates true internal values, in that it represents a ready willingness to abandon something of great importance. In Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening”, the author utilises the monotonous uniformity of Edna Pontellier’s society, and the unspoken pressures to conform, in order to illustrate Edna’s internal conflict. Chopin’s portrayal of Edna’s sacrifice, conveys that those who value personal freedom will strive to defy societal conventions to temporarily fulfill autonomous desires, but in doing so will eventually experience personal destruction, to truly attain a measure of individual freedom. Edna’s dalliances with men other than her husband exemplify her desire to escape the strict confines of her own marriage, to escape the husband

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