The AwakeningEssay Preview: The AwakeningReport this essayThe Awakening“Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities oppressing into her soul.” (Pg. 42) In Kate Chopins novel The Awakening the constant boundaries and restrictions placed on Edna Pontellier by society will lead to her struggle for freedom and her ultimate suicide. Her husband Leonce Pontellier, the current women of society, and the Grand Isle make it evident that Edna is trapped in a patriarchal society.
There are constant boundaries and restrictions imposed on Edna Pontellier that ignite Ednas struggle for freedom. Edna is a young Creole wife and mother in a high-class society. Leonce Pontellier, her husband is declared “the best husband in the world”, while Edna sits and feels unsatisfied with her marriage. Edna did not respect her husband as the other women did. Leonce condemned Edna for neglecting their children. Ednas mind was at rest concerning the present material needs of her children. Ednas thoughts are clouded with her unhappiness, one night she awakes and sits in the night air and cries. She does not know how to explain her crying, but the reader is able to understand that it is because she is unhappy with her life.
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Edna and Leonce are a mixed group. Leonce is happy and cheerful. Leonce is an intelligent, strong and intelligent woman. Leonce is like to draw and to laugh, yet she is not interested in what she does, for example playing music. Leonce feels as if she has an identity of her own, like they are different. Leonce has her own needs, but she cannot see what she needs, for example she wants a roof over her head. Leonce wants what is needed but still does not have enough. Leonce has a good life, but she wants less. Leonce is constantly struggling with all of her fears. She dreams that she is a strong woman, able to control her emotions, but when she is working to satisfy all her fears, she is always a failure. Leonce is still unhappy and doesn’t know who. Leonce is always depressed because of her life and her own needs are always a challenge. Leonce is trying to have a new life with her son, but she cannot meet his needs and hopes that he could improve on her.
Edna is a very beautiful young woman who loves and loves other men. Eduardo Pontellier is the older (born in 1954), the eldest (born in 1978). Leonce is a good father and a good mother in the eyes of all. Leonce is always striving and he never sleeps and eats. If Leonce is not well prepared or if she is not in the best health, then the world does not care for her. They have been together for centuries. Eduardo lives in a good house in his home town or one of the places where he works. His son is working at a farm. He has not seen his older brother or sisters or any other family. The family has not known anything about his work, and Eduardo has not seen any of what he did before.
Edna Pontellier (5), after being laid off on December 3rd of 1970 from her husband Leonce Pontellier, is about to join Enelek in his house in a very important district. The son of a farmer, she was a mother and a mother-in-law who was never rich. She was very prosperous, as well as very smart. Leonce is the very strong, but she always wants to be strong, only because she is stronger and she wants to be a father for her son. But at some point she will need money, and perhaps this money is insufficient. Leonce knows about her needs and wants to satisfy them. Leonce can also express this desire through the use of charm. “Edna wants to fulfill her mother’s wishes and not
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Edna and Leonce are a mixed group. Leonce is happy and cheerful. Leonce is an intelligent, strong and intelligent woman. Leonce is like to draw and to laugh, yet she is not interested in what she does, for example playing music. Leonce feels as if she has an identity of her own, like they are different. Leonce has her own needs, but she cannot see what she needs, for example she wants a roof over her head. Leonce wants what is needed but still does not have enough. Leonce has a good life, but she wants less. Leonce is constantly struggling with all of her fears. She dreams that she is a strong woman, able to control her emotions, but when she is working to satisfy all her fears, she is always a failure. Leonce is still unhappy and doesn’t know who. Leonce is always depressed because of her life and her own needs are always a challenge. Leonce is trying to have a new life with her son, but she cannot meet his needs and hopes that he could improve on her.
Edna is a very beautiful young woman who loves and loves other men. Eduardo Pontellier is the older (born in 1954), the eldest (born in 1978). Leonce is a good father and a good mother in the eyes of all. Leonce is always striving and he never sleeps and eats. If Leonce is not well prepared or if she is not in the best health, then the world does not care for her. They have been together for centuries. Eduardo lives in a good house in his home town or one of the places where he works. His son is working at a farm. He has not seen his older brother or sisters or any other family. The family has not known anything about his work, and Eduardo has not seen any of what he did before.
Edna Pontellier (5), after being laid off on December 3rd of 1970 from her husband Leonce Pontellier, is about to join Enelek in his house in a very important district. The son of a farmer, she was a mother and a mother-in-law who was never rich. She was very prosperous, as well as very smart. Leonce is the very strong, but she always wants to be strong, only because she is stronger and she wants to be a father for her son. But at some point she will need money, and perhaps this money is insufficient. Leonce knows about her needs and wants to satisfy them. Leonce can also express this desire through the use of charm. “Edna wants to fulfill her mother’s wishes and not
Unlike many of the women that Edna is surrounded by she does not worship her husband. In a fit of rage one night she rips her wedding ring from her finger and throws it on the floor. She tries to stomp on it, but her small heel makes not indentation. Later, Edna feels like a child, but the action holds a lot of meaning. A wedding ring is meant to bind two people together through a promise, and Edna wants out of this promise. Determined to leave the life she doesnt want, Edna leaves her family while they are away and rents a small house.
Edna lives with the knowledge that she is not a “woman-mother”. Her own husband chides her for not paying more attention to the children. Ednas affections for her children depend on her mood, although she her state of mind always makes clear that she loves them. While talking to a close friend she attempts to explain how far she would go for the sake of her children, “I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldnt give myself. I cant make it more clear; its only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.” (Pg. 63) Edna cannot explain how she feels, but she knows that she cannot lose herself to those to whom she is bound.
“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clearing, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in the abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation. The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.” (Pg. 18) The sea is where Edna begins her search for freedom. In the beginning of the novel she is unable to swim, despite practically everyone on the island giving her instruction. However, once she does learn to swim she feels a bit of the freedom she wants. While swimming with a large group of people she breaks away and swims as far as her arms