The Ideology of Social Construction in The Awakening

The awakening of Kate Chopin was accompanied by a journey of the leading character Edna Ponterie. Throughout the novel, she tried to put pressure on her to keep her duties and expectations down, but I realized she can not live the free life she wants. This understanding made her ask for freedom of death. In the Marxist theory, especially in support of Luis Althusser, the role of State Machine (RSA) and State Machine of Ideology (ISA) provides voluntary workers and supplies to the base and allows the system to reproduce it It is that.

Paternity is a social and ideological structure that men (they are patriarchies) are better than women. Sylvia Walby calls it "theory patriarchy." "Social structure and practice system in which men dominate, squeeze, and exploit women" (Walby, 1990). Patriarchalism is based on a hierarchical and unequal power relationship system, men dominate the production, reproductive and sexual behavior of women and impose masculinity and femininity on society. Stereotypes have strengthened unreasonable power relations between men and women. The patriarchal system is not constant, and the dynamic and complicated gender relationship has changed during the historical period. Due to differences in class, caste, religion, region, ethnicity, socio-cultural customs, the nature of dominating and conquering women varies from society to society.

The social relationship between power and control is maintained through ideology. For Fairclough, ideology creates reality that gives meaning to the practice of discourse. Discourse has been invested in ideology through power relations implicitly included in discourse order. Therefore, the practice of ideological discourse not only creates social identity, social relations, and systems of knowledge and belief, but also duplicates or changes it. There are two ways to exercise power. It is compulsion and agreement. According to Fairclough, "ideology is an important mechanism to agree to rule," and discourse is "a key player of ideology". Its role is to establish, maintain or change domination or power relations in society. For Fairclough, the ideology is the construction of reality, they are based on all aspects of form and meaning of discourse practice. Discourse has been invested ideologically through power relations implicitly included in the order of discourse.