Awakening to Freedom

Free awakening or awakening means "wake up, watch or be alert" (Webster 23). This is what Edna Ponterie experienced with the awakening. There was some debate about the validity of the end of this story. Is Edna suicide appropriate? Yes, this story about Edna Pontellier including the end is suitable for women who may feel it if she feels Edna's feelings at that time. Because there is no other way, Edna committed suicide.

Awakening of Kate Chopin is about a young woman named Edna Pontellier. He realizes her condition of being trapped in society and gradually awakens her new expression of freedom, sexuality and confidence. No matter how much she pays, I am very eager for freedom and I do not mind doing anything. The use of Chopin's symbolism indicates that Edna escapes from being freely and independently confined. The author started writing a novel with two birds in the cage. One contains green and yellow parrots and the other contains fake birds. "Green and yellow parrot ... ... French, Spanish, and the language that no one can understand" (468) is a metaphor of Edna's situation. In a way, Edna is like a bird in this cage. She is a social expectation and prisoner of that family. Through the story, she is talking about languages ​​that seems to be incomprehensible. Even my husband and my friends.

From the beginning of awakening, readers will be symbolized by birds, a parrot talking and a bruising bird. The contrast represented by two birds can be seen as a representation of Edna and the outside world. The parrot lives in a golden cage. All parrots are prepared for parrots, but parrots are dissatisfied with the surrounding environment, expressing themselves and seeking all "disappearances" (1). Parrots also imitated the surrounding creatures unconsciously and also adopt pure social conditions. The emergence of mockery birds may represent freedom for Edna to wake up and freedom some people already have. Chopin can choose any bird to explain the outside world, but with the choice of imitating birds, it can conclude that people with freedom ridicule Edna 's prison sentence.