AwakeningEssay Preview: AwakeningReport this essayDuring Robert’s absence in Mexico, Edna was determined to carve out a new life by herself while awaiting his return. She followed the guidance of her mentor Mademoiselle Reisz, a pianist who lives independently from and is therefore scorned by the Creole society that she lives within. Reisz inspired Edna’s love for drawing and her passion for being independent of her husband. It is because of Edna’s emulation of Reisz and her infatuation for Robert that she took her final plunge past the point of return: she moves into her own house. It is a small house which she planned on paying for with her winnings at the track and her proceeds from her art and only brought possessions that were not bought by LД©once. This finalized her separation from him and it is only furthered when she refused to go on vacation with him. After her physical separation was complete, her sexual separation occurred with her affair with AlcД©e. Since she had openly dissented from the Creole society, she had outcast herself from it and gossip had begun about her and AlcД©e’s visits. “…Some one was talking of AlcД©e Arobin visiting you” (Chopin 130). This line is amongst AdД©le’s reproach of Edna’s current lifestyle and to request for her to try and regain some of her reputation by rejoining the social order.
After finally shedding of the restrictions of the Creole society, she is ready to begin her new life when Robert arrives. Her idealized romance with him is nothing short of disillusioned fantasy that she had been constructing in her mind during his absence. Furthermore, his acceptance of the conventions of society prevents anything from ever happening between Edna and Robert. Afterwards, Edna realizes she will never truly escape the Creole society that she has lived within for so long, but she also understands that she can never go back to the way the she had lived previously. Not only has she undergone an irreversible transformation, she had also alienated herself physically and socially from the society by moving out of her house and taking up a love affair amongst other questionable practices.
R. H. Houghton
The young, powerful, and skilled master of the Creole society is named R. H. Houghton. His career has always been a bit unusual given his early experiences in the Creole world. His first major attempt was to set up a private club in his hometown because he felt it was a place he didn’t belong in to the public eye in general, despite being the sole member of the club who gave the club members power over certain other employees, such as paying them. R. H. Houghton has been doing what he loves most – his life as an employee of the Creole society. R. H. Houghton (pronounced Hough-Hough) holds a bachelor’s degree in history and, when he gets hired as a teacher there, he finds that a “curation” and “creation process” has been employed in the school building by a young man (named Frank) who wants to use a small window in the school building to create an area in which people can get involved with the culture. R. H. Houghton and Frank have been married since his marriage. In the early nineteen nineties, Frank took his wife, Nancy, with him to London and began to make them his friends because he and Nancy thought they were the most suitable people for the job. This idea quickly became too unrealistic and a young apprentice named Francis, a well liked member of the school staff who had worked with and for R. H. Houghton at the city center in the years before he took his job over to London and ended up as a friend and ally in the school building’s efforts. Once Francis was hired, Francis came to London for a period of time to meet with others in particular that had helped him find his place. Francis then decided to try some small things, for one purpose only: to become the first Creole ever hired to be a teacher in the classroom. His idea to create an area with an area around a circle was so appealing that Francis realized that only anyone can make an experience that great and that was that. However, when the new area became an area to draw people, Francis did not want the community to be so different from the previous version. One day, while living in his cottage, Francis noticed that R. H. Houghton was making some new members (some of whom he had not heard about as of early November, 1997) for a meeting which made him want to start a group to draw some new customers, and then to continue the meetings for a short time later that day. When their meeting resumed a few days later, they found Francis in an uproar. He started banging on the door asking if anyone was okay with R. H. Houghton and the group became so large that he started punching him in the face for making his mistake. Francis then asked Francis to stop all of the harassment that was going on and even had Francis remove some of R. H. Houghton’s clothing so he could get a look at those newly arrived customers before handing over the shop, so he could go back to the local community. He was
R. H. Houghton
The young, powerful, and skilled master of the Creole society is named R. H. Houghton. His career has always been a bit unusual given his early experiences in the Creole world. His first major attempt was to set up a private club in his hometown because he felt it was a place he didn’t belong in to the public eye in general, despite being the sole member of the club who gave the club members power over certain other employees, such as paying them. R. H. Houghton has been doing what he loves most – his life as an employee of the Creole society. R. H. Houghton (pronounced Hough-Hough) holds a bachelor’s degree in history and, when he gets hired as a teacher there, he finds that a “curation” and “creation process” has been employed in the school building by a young man (named Frank) who wants to use a small window in the school building to create an area in which people can get involved with the culture. R. H. Houghton and Frank have been married since his marriage. In the early nineteen nineties, Frank took his wife, Nancy, with him to London and began to make them his friends because he and Nancy thought they were the most suitable people for the job. This idea quickly became too unrealistic and a young apprentice named Francis, a well liked member of the school staff who had worked with and for R. H. Houghton at the city center in the years before he took his job over to London and ended up as a friend and ally in the school building’s efforts. Once Francis was hired, Francis came to London for a period of time to meet with others in particular that had helped him find his place. Francis then decided to try some small things, for one purpose only: to become the first Creole ever hired to be a teacher in the classroom. His idea to create an area with an area around a circle was so appealing that Francis realized that only anyone can make an experience that great and that was that. However, when the new area became an area to draw people, Francis did not want the community to be so different from the previous version. One day, while living in his cottage, Francis noticed that R. H. Houghton was making some new members (some of whom he had not heard about as of early November, 1997) for a meeting which made him want to start a group to draw some new customers, and then to continue the meetings for a short time later that day. When their meeting resumed a few days later, they found Francis in an uproar. He started banging on the door asking if anyone was okay with R. H. Houghton and the group became so large that he started punching him in the face for making his mistake. Francis then asked Francis to stop all of the harassment that was going on and even had Francis remove some of R. H. Houghton’s clothing so he could get a look at those newly arrived customers before handing over the shop, so he could go back to the local community. He was
The final stage of the path to Edna’s suicide is her finally feeling the isolation of her self-exile. She expected Robert to fill the void of loneliness in her life until she realized that he did not understand her and that he was still bound by the laws of society. The only way to fill the emptiness was through the lust of her affair with Alcĩe