Question

Women's literature*

Throughout Kate Choplin's "The Awakening" , Edna experiences a series of awakenings. Pick a moment where Edna awakens in some way and describe what kind of awakening Edna experiences. How does it change and/or affect her?

Need about 200 words.

Answer 1

The true Awakening in the novel, and in Edna Pontellier is the awakening of self. Througout the novel, she is on a transcendental journey of self- discovery. She is learning what it means to be a individual, a women, and a mother.This all awakening affect her.

A great deal of this confusion is owed to the second awakening in Edna's character , The Sexual Awakening. This is with out doubt, the most considered and examined aspect of the novel. As Edna begins to realize that she is an individual, capable of making choices without being other another's possession., she begins to explore what these choices might bring her.

Her first sexual awakening comes in the form of Robert Lebrun. Edna and Robert are attracted to one another from the first meeting, though they do not realized it. They unwittingly flirt with each other, so that only the narrator and reader understand what is going on.