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Life and Society
In Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, the constant boundaries and restrictions
placed on Edna Pontellier by society will lead to her ultimate struggle for freedom. Her
husband Leonce Pontellier, the current women of society, and the Grand Isle make it
apparent that Edna is trapped in a patriarchal society. Despite these people, Edna has a
need to be free and she is able to escape from the patriarchal society that she despises.
The sea, Robert Lebrun, and Mademoiselle Reisz serve as Edna's exits from this
traditional way of life.
Edna is a young Creole wife and mother in a high-class society. The novel unfolds
the life of a woman who feels dissatisfied and restrained by the expectations of society.
Leonce Pontellier, her husband is declared "Â…the best husband in the world" (Chopin 7).
Edna is forced to admit that she knew of none better. Edna represents women in the
past that were suppressed. These women weren't allowed to give their opinions and were
often seen as objects, which explains the way her husband never really saw Edna as his
wife, but more as a material possession. In this society, men viewed their wives as an
object, and she receives only the same respect as a possession.
Mrs. Pontellier was not a mother-woman. The mother-woman role is an image
that summarizes this idea of restraint. It is a behavioral code which bases a woman's
identity on her capacity to bear children, look after them, and worship the husband. It is a
role based on the release of each female's individuality for the purpose of the mother
woman image.
Edna struggles for freedom throughout the novel. The sea is where...
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