Gender In The Awakening
Base on the reading and discussion of the novel "The Awakening", I find the centre topic always around woman and the theme, I think, is that woman's awakening.
Comparing between Adele and Edna, Adele is a traditional mother-woman who represents most women they are faith for husband and put all attention in family, but Edna is an awakening woman and "In short, Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman"(Chopin,8) Because of this basic reason, she falls in love with Robert, what Adele dose not when Robert pursues her. In chapter 12, she is against husband first time about staying out on the hammock. And the word "Awaken" first appears in the novel, as shown, "Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque,
Comparing between Adele and Edna, Adele is a traditional mother-woman who represents most women they are faith for husband and put all attention in family, but Edna is an awakening woman and "In short, Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman"(Chopin,8) Because of this basic reason, she falls in love with Robert, what Adele dose not when Robert pursues her. In chapter 12, she is against husband first time about staying out on the hammock. And the word "Awaken" first appears in the novel, as shown, "Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque,