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Edna's Dream In The Awakening

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Music, as well as art, had influenced her emotional/ personal awakening to the fact that, drawing allows Edna to find love, peace within herself, and is the only thing she actually has control over.Her imaginative dream of being alone open the doors for her departure from Leonce's house which is a form of individuality in which seeks to build her own autonomy, she finds a new house that she named Pigeon illustrating the ideals of not being able escape society even after she moves, representing the fact that she is like a bird in which, the bird can’t escape the cage he’s in, as for Edna she can’t escape the role of woman in society.(Pg31)“ Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul.” after haven slept alone in the hammock,she's …show more content…

Taking all her personal items to her new house awakens her self-governing life,where her family is not part of her life. Her emotional awakening opened the door for her sexual awakening in which now she feels the lost feeling for love and emptiness. The rebirth of a soul allows a new beginning for Edna, having swum in the sea in a form of baptism, her soul awakens. Edna's innate talent for drawing, reading allows her to express her feeling, which builds her sexual awakening.The feeling of being alone allows Edna to posses some strange feelings within herself, but uch feeling allows her to feel relief.(Pg72)”When Edna was at last alone, she breathed a big, genuine sigh of relief”, this foreshadows her solitude death, where she unfolds her soul to society. (Pg 27) "Think of the time I have lost splashing about like a baby! reflects her

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