Edna Pontellier's Criticism In The Awakening

On the other hand, Vivie challenges her freedom by challenging the traditional female role. Vive, as an educated woman, seeks for independence towards her freedom in opposition to the relationship Frank seeks out. By challenging Vive states her position as an independent woman when she explains, “I must be treated as a woman of business, permanently single and permanently unromantic” (Shaw 1822). Vivie seeks for her freedom when she prefers to take care of herself before committing to a relationship. Instead, Vive defies the traditional female role where she wants to have financial responsibility to assure her independence.

The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a feminist story where the protagonist Edna Pontellier begins to fight social norms in order to break free of social norms and become a strong independant woman. This story’s central self conflict feature unique characteristics which make it both similar and different to other romantic and modernist literature in that era. This essay will compare and contrast characteristics of The Awakening and “ A Pair of Silk Stockings” , “ Love is not all” and “ The Journey”. In The Awakening, The protagonist Edna Pontellier starts out as a typical wealthy housewive of a creole. Although her life is comfortable she finds it difficult to find her true inner self as she has to conform to what society wants of her.

Such wives are foolish mothers”(106). Therefore she wants cherry woman to lift herself from the state of degradatish to which they have been reduced and empower to which they have been reduced and empower themselves so that they can empower themselves and their children to lead fulfilling lives. The liberationists of the 1980’s and 1990’s also regarded motherhood and mothering as sheer wastage of powerful feminist energy, in the home and the household which they viewed as an area of “ arrested social development.” (Mitchell and Oakley

She practises chastity after her husband’s death personally, and goes further to consolidate her power by passing her own distress on her daughter-in-law, saying: “fame is the noblest of all possessions in life” ([人過留名，雁過留聲。我守了二十多年的寡，也是從苦水裏熬出來的]). In this perspective, underpinned by Deniz Kandiyoti’s 1988 work “Bargaining with Patriarchy” , Madame’ Liu’s eagerness for reputation is added with more content when we see her as a victim of feudal ideology. She has lost her husband, and a son to count onto, little wonder she perceives Young mistress as her ultimate export for distress, and thus feels the need to secure her loyalty to the Liu’s by

But when some other girls asked, she said no. I spoke right up, ‘I don 't think it 's fair if you just make an exception for us’”(Alvarez, 14). Even though Minerva has what she and her friend want, it 's not enough. She thinks that the same rules should be applied to everyone so that no one is more or less privileged than anyone else. These are the idealistic politics she

Anne Bradstreet is one of the most controversial poets of her time. Choosing her lover and materialistic items over religion. This is best shown in her works "To my dear loving husband" and "Upon the burning of our house" Which solely focuses on her Ironic lover as well as her home. In these poems she talks about how nothing can replace the happiness she feel with the main topic of each poem. While very similar in black and white.

Lysistrata breaks from the traditional role of a female in many ways. Even though the play expresses female power, Lysistrata is not a feminist play because the women are not fighting for women’s rights; they are fighting for attention. Lysistrata puts on a charade to cover her actual goal. She and the other women give up their desires for their families. They have come together as one to restore the peace.

Queen Bees act in a way that will differentiate them from other women. “They do this by pursuing an individual strategy of advancement that centers on distancing themselves from other women” (Cooper, 2016). It is as though they shy away due to be hurt, harmed, or degraded only

Lady Macbeth showed the audience how far she was willing to go for her own power, by both calling upon the spirits to enable herself to get out of her role and influencing her husband to take action. She is ultimately the cataclysm that fanned the flames to her husband’s ambition and drive, and it is her own power that turned Macbeth into a vicious tyrant. In a way, Lady Macbeth truly was a witch because she succeeded in not only getting more power for herself, but for her husband too, and in the end her powers ended up destroying them

By going against these expectations of her time, Kahlo established herself as a unique character. One last piece of evidence for Kahlo’s feminism was her signature mono brow. It was not the mono brow itself; however, her feminism came from what it stood for. She wore on purpose to go against the common social behavior of her time. Admirably, she did not shy away from being bold in her feminist like actions.