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The Sea In Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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A symbol can be whatever you want it to be, but an allegory provides hidden meaning within the text. Which is why I believe the Sea is a allegory and recurring symbol throughout Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. The Sea doesn’t just keep showing up throughout the story for no reason, there’s a reason behind it. From the start of the book you know that Edna is fighting some inner demons. As the book progresses those demons only begin to grow stronger, which causes her to question her life and the way she’s living. The Sea represents everything Edna doesn’t have. In a way The Sea represents her own “…psychological or spiritual difficulties” (Foster 109). It represents freedom, and empowerment. The Sea represents freedom from the woman that everybody

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