Response On The Awakening
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Sprinkles response on Chopins The Awakening has a clear voice explaining how Chopin received a negative attention on her novel when it was first released. In the late 1800s women were not expected to write about such “vulgarity”. Yet in Chopins novel womens right for individualism is clearly expressed.
The audience of the post civil war era was not ready for a woman to express thoughts that men could only speak of. Women were expected to play the role of a Victorian woman and nothing more. Chopins tock a risk knowing that this could change her life and her career; she did not allow the dominating world of men take her voice away. Sprinkle does not give Chopins enough justice on how much she opened door for the women in her era and the one in the near future. He does explain her hardships that were thrown at her but the impact that she made for female writers was not given.
One thing that I did agree with Sprinkle was the emphases on the choice that Chopin could have made while editing the novel, she did not shy from the plain truth that woman are equal to men, they have the same choices and encounter the same choices that and man would: freedom, adultery and moral choices. Yet the article lacked the realization that women in that era actually lived life of risk or adventure. The article should have directed more on the open truth of women and their choices that was frowned upon. Chopin wrote this novel for the purpose to educate the close-minded individuals that did not except equality of women and men.
Sprinkle did discuss a fair amount of Chopins impacts from the Awakening, although he did not fully explain her force on society because of the risk she tock by publishing a novel that was not accepted by the era at that time. Individualism was missing which was the biggest struggle Chopin was trying to overcome.Work Cited