Theme Of Edna Pontellier's Responsibility In The Awakening

It was not enough that women stopped having any rights or money, but they also become the property of their spouse, in other words, a husband took the decision about his wife’s life and body. Their needs and image were not a priority. Such as the condition on women on Victorian period, Lady of Shalott had her shortcomings but, when she beat them up, she died. The poem presents the story of Lady of Shalott, a woman

She than compare Dee and Maggie, who is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and fuller figure. After their house brunt down, we find out Maggie was the most effected with it cause her to stay home. While her older sister Dee went off to get a better life and education with the help of their mother and their church raising money for her to go to Augusta for school. Dee comes back home and is undoubtedly seem she has changed. She comes with a new attitude and news she has changed her name form Dee to Wangero.

For example, Mabel‘s brothers did not want her to be on her own when they moved out. Since they are all in debt, they try to convince her to go live with their married sister (Lawrence 455). This conflict between siblings shows that because she is a woman, she is seen as lesser than her brothers. It is suitable for the men in the family to live on their own and make a living but she needs to be taken care of. Another example occurs when Mabel has an internal conflict with herself when she attempts to drown herself in a lake (Lawrence 460).

Put me down easy, Janie, Ah’m a cracked plate” (Hurston 20). Nanny is successfully able to convince her granddaughter through her own traumatic experiences and make her feel “sympathy” as she tells Janie she doesn’t want her life to be spoiled like her own life was. At first, Janie refuses to marry Logan Killicks. Nanny being the older one, defends herself by saying “put me down easy” since she can no longer care for Janie and only her wish is for Janie to get married and be protected from the dangers she and her own daughter faced. By calling herself a “cracked plate” Nanny further elucidates that she went through many hardships in her own life and wants to do the right thing for her granddaughter by

In “The Story of An Hour,” the theme of the story can be derived from two ideals: confinement and liberty. Mrs. Mallard, who feels dominated by her husband and imprisoned in her home, patiently waits her potential freedom. A reader may interpret Mrs. Mallard to be the average, stereotypical wife until her husband is falsely pronounced dead in a train accident. The reader then learns that Mrs. Mallard is not at all who she seems when she reacts in ways that reveal her true desire to live amongst her own company rather than other people. Mrs. Mallard felt confined to her husband and felt only his domination over her.

O’Connor also carefully draws out her characters. O’Connor made the Grandmother a women so that any reader felt lower than and feel below in authority. The grandmother is shown as a pushy woman with characteristics of selfishness. These characteristics show when she insisted on going to the old house. When she realized that Bailey was not too keen on the idea, she made up a story about treasure to get the kid’s to help beg their dad.

(St. Vincent Millay 1-4). In this poem, readers can see that during this period, women were beginning to question and rebel against the expectations society placed upon them. As St. Vincent Millay points out, women were now enjoying their freedom, but society still expected them to return to a placid lifestyle once they got married. As a result of the aforementioned expectation, a crucial question arises: why must a woman abandon her freedom in exchange for marriage? Instead of complying with this age-old constraint, St. Vincent Millay challenges the expectations placed upon women in the last line of “The Singing-Woman from the Wood’s Edge” by stating, “What should I be but just what I am?” (St. Vincent Millay 36).

She simultaneously loves and resents her children because, while she is their mother, she feels that they have taken away her freedom and self-purpose. As Edna journeys in her awakening, she strives to find meaning for herself as Edna, not her children's mother. To prove she is more than just a mother, she distances herself from normal motherly responsibilities. “He reproached his wife with her inattention, her habitual neglect of the children. If it was not a mother's place to look after children, whose on earth was it?”(Chopin, 15) Edna's neglect of her children stems from others expectations for her to submit to and look after her

When she found out that Mr. Mallard was dead, she felt free from the male abuse that she had been a setback of since the day she and her Mr. Mallard were married. Marriage, in the story of an hour, it appears to be the husband having total control over their wife. It also appears like Mrs. Louise Mallard thought that she wasn’t even permitted to have her personal opinions which was possibly true. To impeach your husband at this period intended that you had been being an out of control spouse. In my opinion, Mrs. Louise mallard realizes that she has been living her existence via boundaries caused from being

The Awakening, a novel written by Kate Chopin, is a novel that can be considered out of the ordinary due to the ambiguous ending concerning the main character committing suicide. Edna is a married woman who feels constrained by the image that society places on women. Throughout the novel she encounters other characters who inspire her to break through society’s restrictions and become more free and independent. After her and Mr. Pontellier move back to their home in New Orleans, her former flame, Robert, moves away to Mexico. Soon after, Edna moves out of her house while her husband is away on business, taking greater steps to becoming a self-determining woman.