Free Awakening Essays: An Analysis of The Awakening :: Chopin Awakening Essays

An Analysis of The Awakening The first thing I would bid to do is go through and pick out the chapters I lay out to be significant in the novel. Chapter 1 *there is symbolism of a well trained caged bird, (like we read in the hypertext) which represents what wives were to be in Ednas keeptime *well trained *speaks of pleasantries * gets with Summer a time of beauty, mellowness and fruition *Grand Isle *vacation from New Orleans life (imprisonment) *ends at Summer aft(prenominal) 1 yr *this vacation follows Edna back up to New Orleans where she gradually begins to test how trapped she really is *it is after this vacation that Edna begins to awake Chapter 2 *Edna was from Kentucky and married a Creole *this is a conflict in religion *she is Presbetyrian and hes Catholic *this presents a problem for Edna for she has to live a Catholic life style Chapter 3 *we first charm here the marital problems that M&M Pontellier conduct *the ideals of what Mr. Pontellier expects of Edna *looking after the children was rattling important *marital state bored, unlively, becomes more than depressing on her *impt Ednas breakdown, her crying Chapter 4 *Adele, the perfect woman *embodies all the qualities of what a woman-mother should be *shes been married 7 yrs and has a child about every 2 yrs, again fullfilling her womanly and motherly duties. *her identity seems to be consumed by having children and her current state Chapter 7 *this chapter we see Edna begin to slip away, she doesnt pay as much help to things *daydreaming/ Adele asks her a question and Edna is not with her Chapter 10 *Edna learns to SWIM very impt. *she gains control of her body *the sea becomes her friend, close, intimate, sensuous Chapter 11 *this section we see a bit of Ednas rebellious nature *her husband commands her and Edna says NO Chapter 17 *we see yet another confrontation between M&M Pontellier, more marital problems *I think we as well begin to see ore hatred and violence under the surface of her husband *we also see another problem, Tuesday was to be the calling day and Edna wasnt disposed(p) for the callers, she realizes that she no longer cares to do the things that her husband wants her to Chapter 24 *Ednas father comes for a visit *he also portrays that the females should submit to the males *males are ascendant?