The Awakening and Selected Short Stories (Legend Classics)
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",The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and
prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the
weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.",The
Awakening follows Edna Pontellier, a resident of coastal Grand Isle
of Louisiana, in her late twenties, who has a quintessential set-up
for a content housewife. Indeed, her husband makes good money, and
her daily routine should gleefully hinge on the two children, but,
Edna is neither a self-sacrificing mother, nor a devoted wife.
Instead, she is gradually awoken to rebel against this 'perfect
set-up'. Edna finds herself in the middle of two extremes. On one
hand, she finds selfless Madame Ratignolle, who is a model wife. On
the other, there is dejected Mademoiselle Reisz, who pursues her
artistic aspiration in solitude. While taking bold decisions and
carving her niche, she explores her sexuality with a womanizer,
Alcee and an intimate understanding with a young man, Robert
Lebrun. Will this awakening predetermine her ultimate happiness or
signpost personal tragedy? Will the duality of the 'outward
existence' and 'inward life' be reconciled for Edna to signify her
emancipation?This short novel is widely acknowledged to do both,
encapsulating the features of fin de siecle realism in its linear
narrative, and anticipates literary modernism of the early
twentieth century. Edna's defiance of the American alternative of
Victorian 'Angel in the House' is reminiscent of such classics as
Anna Brontë's Tenant of the Wildfell Hall. The Awakening also
procures modernist works where the heroines look for the self -
namely, Mrs Dalloway, Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Bell
Jar. The condensed and intense prose style gives the novel a
cryptic charm in line with Fitzgerald's classic, The Great Gatsby.
Besides, vivid natural symbolism of water, birds and the moon are
the calling card of the novel that enhances its level of ambiguity
and multivalence.
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Kate Chopin ,
Legend Press Ltd
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Kate Chopin,
Legend Press Ltd
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