Edna Pontellier and Social Limitations in Kate Chopin's Awakening

When discussing Kate Chopin's novel "Awakening", Susan Rossoki classified the novel as a title of "Awakening Novel" and distinguished it as an apprentice novel, a growing novel. The actor learns the essence of the world, discovers its meaning and pattern, acquires the philosophy of life and the "art of life" (Blum 43). In the awakening novel, the heroine knows the world equally, but because of the heroine the world is defined by love and marriage, and the "art of life" is that this art is difficult or impossible The price of art is often a tragic ending.

"Awakening" by Kate Chopin and "Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen of Nora "Awakening" by Kate Chopin "Awakening" and Henrik Ibsen 's "Doll's House" are all male. It is written in every aspect of life. Edna Ponterie, the main character of "Awakening" and Nora, the hero of "House of Dolls", fell into the world that people dominate. Husbands' presumed advantage confined them at home. Edna and Nora have many similarities, but unlike Henrik Ibsen's play "Doll's House", characters of Nola Helmer, the hero, interact with other characters. A dialogue was developed and announced including Mrs. Linde, Niels Krostad, Rank, Dr. Ann-Marie. Ibsen also uses certain dramas and literary methods and styles such as irony, juxtaposition, parallelism, etc. to further clarify the interesting aspects of Nola's personality.

Awakening Kate Chopin is a fictional story depicting the physical and mental awakening of the main character Edna Ponterie. "Awakening" which was written and published at the end of the 19th century became controversial and became a clear work of time and writer. The only novel written by Chopin uses tools of various themes and stories to explore the hearts of Victorian women. One way Chopin leads the reader is to use symbols such as sea, music, birds, but probably the most convincing and intense theme, as birds seem to be cited most frequently.

When it was first published, the highly controversial Kate Chopin 1899 novel "Awakening" is now widely known as an early example of feminist literature. By frequently using the image and symbolism of birds, Chopin tells stories of Edna Ponterie's gradual awakening, a sense of power, and a sexy figure beyond power as a gender of the century. In the novel, birds symbolize the limits of women's role and deprive women from political, legal or social autonomy. A woman is considered to be a wealth, and its identity is related to the role of the wife and mother. At the same time, birds symbolize the ultimate escape from a gold plated cage of women, as Edna learns to fly freely and gain his freedom regardless of social constraints.