In the novels The Awakening,Huckleberry Finn and The Life of Fredrick Douglass,the search for freedom and authenticity is reflected through characters like Huck, Edna , Jim and Fredrick Douglass .All of these characters have are the rebellions to their societies' demands and they are desperate to seek freedom from the burdens of their cultural demands .
There are certain similarities between the personalities of Huck and Edna .Edna is struggling to find her "real place " in her socirty . She is oppressed and dealing with sexism . A part of her conscious is aware of this inequality and it stings her soul abusively .
An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in the same familiar part of her conscious filled her whole being with a vague anguish . It was like a shadow ,like a mist passing across her soul's summer day . It was strange and unfamiliar ;it was a mood . Page 8 (para 2)
She feels repressed and a minority in her society .These feelings sounds like the feelings of being useless and unworthy and their intensity is revealed as feelings of chill in summer t
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In the beginnning of the Fredrick Douglass's novels, he imposes a question on the matter of him being deprived of same privilages . Both Edna and Huck suffer from ill treatments from more powerful beings . Jim, in short, exhibits all the qualities that "the Negro" supposedly lacks . His childhoood and that of Edna's has characteristic that they both questioned their identities right from the childhood . After running away , Jim tells Huck about his reason of leaving his place "Well ,you see, it 'uz dis way . Jim lacks the property of a typical " nigger " . "All right then, I'll go to hell. They find their inner peace through observing water . Jim faces racial troubles and Edna is a victim of 'sexism' . " This statement that he makes several times in the novel is the strongest evidence of his muscular feelings towards freedom . Edna doesnot show that much atttachment with her children and so is not very "fitted" in her environment . Huck feels a sense of security when on the raft and calls it his home, and Edna also shows her sense of security in water by drowning her being in it .
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