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A 2.5 page paper which examines awakening process throughout the novel. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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heard. They made attractive appearances, adorned their husbands arms, and engaged in coquettish conversation only upon invitation. As far as sexuality was concerned, desire was claimed as the
male domain, and pertained to women only in terms of motherhood (Mathews 127). A womans sexual awakening, the medical establishment decided, was a physical impossibility because "normal females possessed
no erotic inclinations whatsoever... one cannot awaken something that does not exist" (Wolff 3). Kate Chopin was determined to prove otherwise with the strong-willed protagonist Edna Pontellier in her
1899 novel, The Awakening. She was a complex creature with sensitivity, imagination, creativity, and an unapologetically passionate sexual nature. The text essentially is a chronicle of Ednas awakening
process. After leaving the controlling grasp of her domineering father, the Colonel, Edna marries a Creole gentleman named Leonce Pontellier, but soon discovers life with him is not the romantic
fantasy she envisioned for herself. In acts that were nothing short of shocking for their time, Edna aggressively pursued erotic pleasures in extramarital relationships with Alcee Arobin and Robert
Lebrun. For Robert in particular, Edna fell hard, and sought to construct for herself "a complex kingdom of sensuous freedom commingled with love and tenderness, a place where man
and woman awaken each other to share the beauty and brutality of life together in mutual affirmation" (Wolff 3). But with this sexual awakening, Edna Pontellier found no lasting
fulfillment. The climax of her emotional quest occurs when she attends her friend Adele Ratignolles difficult childbirth. Suddenly, it occurs to her that motherhood is a tragedy, a
constraint from which a woman could never become free. Chopin wrote of this experience, "Edna began to feel uneasy. She was seized with a vague dread. Her
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