The Awakening Rhetorical Analysis Chapter 7
Chapter 7 Queer Analysis:
I don’t really want to write an essay this is more like an accumulation. However, if I were to have a thesis it would be something like: In chapter seven of The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses several subtextual techniques such as parallels, callbacks, and symbolism, to covertly convey an aspect of Edna’s sexuality that is, as the writer understands it, homosexual. By using these literary techniques in tandem with the strongly written friendship between Edna and Adele, Edna’s homosexuality can be unearthed from the subtext. (or something like that)
Anyway, to whomever is reading this, if I show this to anyone, there is a bit of exposition that might seem unrelated but bear with. Unless you don’t want to, in …show more content…
They then both sit down in the shade and mostly just adjust their dresses and talk about how fricken hot it is. Off in the distance, are the young lovers and the woman in black:
“Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts’ yearnings beneath the children’s tent, which they and found unoccupied.” (29)
After this description, Edna begins staring into the sea. The sea has already been associated with Edna’s sexuality and the introspection that accompanies it--her sexual freedom, in the lines:
“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.”
And later in the story we find out that Edna can’t swim. The idea that the ocean is Edna’s sexuality/sexual freedom, and her inability to swim in it meaning an inability to express her sexuality freely could be supported by the description of her delight upon learning to swim:
“A feeling of exaltation overtook her, as if some power of significant import had been given her to control the working of her body and soul She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim out where no woman had
I don’t really want to write an essay this is more like an accumulation. However, if I were to have a thesis it would be something like: In chapter seven of The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses several subtextual techniques such as parallels, callbacks, and symbolism, to covertly convey an aspect of Edna’s sexuality that is, as the writer understands it, homosexual. By using these literary techniques in tandem with the strongly written friendship between Edna and Adele, Edna’s homosexuality can be unearthed from the subtext. (or something like that)
Anyway, to whomever is reading this, if I show this to anyone, there is a bit of exposition that might seem unrelated but bear with. Unless you don’t want to, in …show more content…
They then both sit down in the shade and mostly just adjust their dresses and talk about how fricken hot it is. Off in the distance, are the young lovers and the woman in black:
“Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts’ yearnings beneath the children’s tent, which they and found unoccupied.” (29)
After this description, Edna begins staring into the sea. The sea has already been associated with Edna’s sexuality and the introspection that accompanies it--her sexual freedom, in the lines:
“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.”
And later in the story we find out that Edna can’t swim. The idea that the ocean is Edna’s sexuality/sexual freedom, and her inability to swim in it meaning an inability to express her sexuality freely could be supported by the description of her delight upon learning to swim:
“A feeling of exaltation overtook her, as if some power of significant import had been given her to control the working of her body and soul She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim out where no woman had