The Awakening Stereotypes In Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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Humans and birds are often placed in cages that keep them away from the unknown world. Society bounds us into this little cage in which we can't stretch our wings to be ourselves and be free. Nevertheless, we humans have a nature to try and escape these ideals. The world throws sudden revelations to us that aid us in our voyage to awakening. During ones awakening the mind is enhanced and pulled away from its comfort zone and liberated into an unknown world. In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the protagonist Edna Pontellier spreads her wings and is freed into her world.
Women are a primary target of the stereotypes the world sets forth for any living thing. For years since the beginning of existence, women have been placed in a …show more content…
The beginning of Edna's channel to her awakening is introduced at the start of the novel. As Edna attempted to learn how to swim all summer during her vacation, she finally learned one night. "A feeling of exultation overtook her as if some power of significant import had been given her to control the working of her body and her soul. She grew daring and reckless, overestimating her strength. She wanted to swim far out, where no women had swum before" (Chopin 27). The fact that she learned how to swim served as an antidote that helped control the poisoning her surrounding was giving her. The water in which she learned how to swim purified her mind, and she started to want to go further and be free. Edna learned how to swim she learned how to spread her wings a little wider, and that turned on a light inside her. She later started to rebel, Edna began to ignore her husband's Leones commands. After spending time with Robert Lebrun chose to stay outside in the hammock. When her husband Leonce came and asked her to come in but she wouldn’t she refuse. "She heard him moving about
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