The Awakening
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
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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