The Awakening: Chopin Glorifying Edna's Fatal Situation
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The title, The Awakening, implies that a rebirth from a stupor into self-
awareness is something good. One would expect that someone who was once
sleeping is better off and can see more clearly when he is fully awake. But
this expectation is exactly opposite to Edna's condition. She is not awak ....
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.... If Chopin has successfully convinced a reader that the characters are
real or that they could be real, the reader is likely to apply what he has
learned from this fable in his or her own life. With these assumptions in mind,
one must apply the task of figuring out what she wants people to believe and how
to behave as a result of reading her book. Edna, whose husband has held her
like a piece of furniture, a piece of personal property, suddenly becomes aware
she is a human being. L ....
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