This novella takes place on the muggy sub tropical Isle of Grand just south of the state of
             Louisiana. This particular Gulf island was for the creole' elite. The Awakening focuses on a
             particular woman named Edna and her life's endeavors in the late eighteen hundreds. The novella
             features wives that feel enslaved, mistreated, and wives that are content with there expectancies
             of being a woman of the south. The Awakening gives you the relationship, a tension between the
             need in peoples lives for sensuality, for the physical, and for the innocense we need to complete
             those emotions. In this story we will explore morality, the rigidity of Catholicism, and what the
             The various settings in the book explain much of the feelings Edna is experiencing and
             ingesting. Edna's emotions seem to jump around a lot giving you the roller coaster ride of what it
             was to be a woman in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. You will examine your
             character, strength, and what individual elements of your sexuality you find threatening. For
             example, you can prepare your mind an exploration of the unsparing truth of women's
             submerged lives in marriages, their sexual desires, and their emotions that drive the force of
             "In the beginning an indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar
             part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like
             a mist passing across her soul. It was strange and unfamiliar; it was a mood" (Chopin 373 ). In
             this particular moment Edna begins to feel her intuitions turn towards desire, in spite of the social
             price she will have to pay for her actions regarding those feelings. Also the fact that the price she
             might have to pay will and could be one that she is not willing to pay for. Also many women are
             not willing to pay the price for their infidelities.
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