Wednesday, August 18, 2010

What do you think about ';The Awakening'; the novel? Is Edna's suicide an escape or lib

I think her suicide was a sign of weakness. Remember earlier in the novel Madame Reisz (the pianist, I think I've spelled her name correctly) feels of Edna's shoulders and says that a woman needs really strong wings if she is going to try to make it as a rebel and artist in this world. Even as Edna is dying the narrator points out a bird falling from the sky with a broken wing. Edna was simply not strong enough to survive as the rebel she wanted to be.



By the way, that's not entirely Edna's fault. Her husband and her physician are both brilliant and unfair fighters when it comes to trying to get her to conform.



What do you think about ''The Awakening'' the novel? Is Edna's suicide an escape or liberating triumph?panda



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What do you think about ''The Awakening'' the novel? Is Edna's suicide an escape or liberating triumph?suzuki



Feminist scholars ''read'' the death as being liberating--it was her only option, her only ''out.'' I tend to agree.

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