The Ideal Woman

Ideal woman, M. Butterfly of Henry David Huang emphasizes stereotyped women and depicts "perfect women". According to Yellow's role, perfect female personality traits include submission, passivity, humility, beauty, dislike of sex, kindness, and quietness. These features are shown in the song and mark her as a perfect woman. Later on, the reader discovered that Song is not a woman at all, it is a man. This will challenge the image of the ideal woman. It is impossible to prove to the reader that all female characters are defective and that the concept of achieving a perfect woman is impossible.

What is the ideal lady? Will an ideal woman change for decades, centuries, thousands of years? Yes, in the 19th century, women needed to have certain qualities to be considered "ideal". Some of the quality has changed over time, but some quality remains the same. In the Creole Society of the 19th century, the ideal qualities related to women included being "mother and daughter." This characteristic represents a woman who loves her family, worships her children, and worships her husband. Creole society has decided the belief that women should take action. In the awakening of Kate Chopin, Edna Ponterie of the non-native Creole community is drawn as Creole woman who does not embody the ideal. In this novel, Edna met various friends and enemies who helped her find her. Some of these friends include Adele Ratignolle and Mlle Reisz.

After marrying her husband with Creole, Edna entered the Creole community. This society is full of "mother and daughter", they worship their children and worship their husbands. At the moment, this "ideal woman" is the standard, Edna knows that she is different. Her friend, Ratignolle is a perfect image of an ideal woman. She is faithful, obedient and nurtured, and simply expresses the perfect image of domestication. Edna praises her friend, but I can not understand why some want to see their husband or want to bark at the children. Mrs. Edna and Mrs. Ratignolle are representatives of Chopin's "elderly" women and "new" women. These two women are two inconsistent examples of women in society. Mademoiselle Reisz is another friend of Edna, indispensable to Edna's "Awakening". Mademoiselle Reisz is an unmarried, old old musician without children, devoting his life to music.