Kate Chopin's The Awakening

Self discovery

In the story about Edna Pontellier a major theme is her omitted self discovery. In the story we can see how Chopin uses style, tone and content to make the reader understand how it was for a person challenging many of the beliefs of the society at the beginning of the twentieth century.
I believe there are many points in the story that can be considered to be very relevant to the time it was written, expressing ideas of the approaching feminist movement and building up an awareness of what was happening to women and the forthcoming feminist movement. Many of the ideas that are expressed in the story concern both the women's movement and an individual woman searching for her identity. Chopin demonstrates through Edna that she believes that marriage without love is harmful for a woman. "Go away" (Chopin, p.110) she says tells her husband, "you bother me" (Chopin, p.63). In this way she is going against every social rule of the......

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Title: Kate Chopin's The Awakening
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