Analysis Of Edna Pontellier In Kate Chopin's The Awakening

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A representation of a figure or role model, is an individual who’s monotonous turns witty to be perceived as someone heroic. The act of straying away from incompetence and impotence to build a core character that gathers up acquisition to be better than who they once were. Inadequately however, individuals are threatened by this dastardly trend of breeding a weak figure towards appealing to the lowest common denominator. Perpetrated by pitiful characterization and an infection that spreads rapidly, destroying everything it touches. With Edna Pontellier one of its casualties from the book The Awakening by Kate Chopin. The prominent character Edna is portrayed in this story as women in her time (1898) and now as a pathetic figure that draws a …show more content…

To be that of someone who breaks out of a weak shell only to construct a new. But the judgement of a weak character only binds a pathetic self-absorbent figure. Edna Pontellier is a woman that didn’t fabricate a new role for herself being. A woman that was trapped from sloth and incompetence, shone by her destiny to not be contested in the broken-down society she took part in. Edna tried to be stronger and different. That is what a prominent character should be portrayed as. But does prominent mean that you aren’t weak, that you are able to stray away from a become a monument to our collective sins. Edna did not meet her awakening, Edna met her demise. This lead to characterizing of an individual of someone who is …show more content…

It allows them to barricade themselves from a weak distraught mind, to be able to overcome the complexity of being the mother’s society doesn’t make them out to be, a sense of being heroic. However, is the same said for Edna Pontellier in the book The Awakening? Does she follow the guideline of what deems a mother to be or does she create her own? Edna prominently ignores the role of motherhood to find herself by leaving her own children behind. An act of greed and selfishness or self-individuality? “I would give up the unessential: I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn’t give myself” (page 47). To be able to surrender yourself, your hope, your hope that one is able to perceive themselves for better or worse. From critical thought and the emergent of the mind, to suppress your own individuality is an action people stray away from. To exploit the form of human intellect and a human’s worst trait. It is the monument to our collective sins. But what this quote exacerbates is the quality of how Edna is portrayed as pathetic figure. How she is not able to give herself up for what people say give life to them. Their children. A form selfishness act to preserve that Edna is incompetent for not being able to give up what she is and who she wants to be. Society wants to deem her into something she’s not. Society

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