Kate Chopin’s The Awakening - The Feminist Awakening

A feminist who awakens the rights of women grows over time; starting with a housewife, gradually getting a career, getting education, and getting a voting right. The movement that creates all these revolutionary changes is known as the feminist movement. The feminist movement happened in the 20th century. Many people do not know the purpose of the feminist movement. The campaign is political and social, trying to establish women's equality. Women's organizations in the US cooperated to acquire women's voting rights, later created and supported the draft amendment of equal rights.

This research includes an analysis of the character of feminist in the work of Kate Chopin. The purpose of this research is to analyze the main female characters as a feminist's role and analyze the feminist's characters in short stories of "Awakening" by Kate Chopin by analyzing the contribution of feminist's role to plot development It is to do. The research topics in this research are to show how the role of feminist is reflected in Kate Chopin's "Awakening", how the role of feminist is to develop plots in Kate Chopin's "Awakening" short story It affects. The design of the research was descriptive design. The result of this study shows that the person of the feminist is Edna Ponterie from the role of "Awakening" by Kate Chopin. Her conversation is regarded as a feminist, ignoring the patriarchal social boundaries of women's behavior and seeking to fulfill her inner feelings on self-rights, self-necessity, and freedom and autonomy.

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.