KATE CHOPINS THE AWAKENING
Kate Chopin's "Awakening", depicts the life of a woman, Edna, in the early 1900's who revolts against the social status quo and leads the life of an independent female regardless of all the risks. It is a story that unfolds the two parts of her life, only to see them both fall apart. Thus we see the unreasonable conflict between her exterior world, the role of a wife and a mother that society has imposed on her and her interior reality of emotions and sexuality which initially are asleep and "awaken" through the course of the novel. For the arousal of each aspect, two men are responsible, Robert and Arobin, which correspond to the two sides of her existence. The complexity of Edna's character, the richness of the novels details, stimulate the reader to probe deeply into the characterizations and meaning of her life. Edna has lost touch with the chain of humanity and the society in which she lives, as a result, she cannot make a true commitment to life. Based on this fact, the novel's development shows a repeated movement down to the depths of Edna's unconscious and back to her conscious world. Edna's emotional "awakening" was stimulated by Robert whose presence built up her confidence allowing her to break out of her p
He aroused her sexual drives, fulfilled her need for a male figure to substitute for the absent Robert. Her dissuasion to commit suicide, is according to Freud, a death wish towards another person of which one feels great anger and regrets for feeling that particular way. 693), were strange and distant from her reality. When Edna swims out into the water until death, she actually drowned Robert along with her hopes. Life was not worth being lived without Rodent "Good-by - because, I love you" (p. Edna realizes the horrifying meaning of her life in the sight of the sea, which offers her the freedom, for which she rebelled for. She was trapped in a world that didn't satisfy her in any way. But this emotional awakening was double-edged. There was no one thing in the world that she desired. Edna's mondus vivendi was suffocating. Her death was liberation and an act of great courage. When she surrenders she becomes a victim of these emotions "Edna bit her handkerchief convulsively, striving to hold back and to hide, even from herself as she would have hidden from another, the emotion which is troubling - tearing - her.
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