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A 3 page paper which examines the communal vision in Kate Chopin’s novel “the Awakening” as it involves human destruction. Bibliography lists 2 additional sources.
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addresses women. The novel takes place in a time when women had little freedom and little opportunity aside from getting married. In relationship to any kind of passion or sexuality
the reality was that women were not allowed to possess, much less exhibit, such tendencies in the western world, thus putting some women in a position where the oppression to
their spirit was ultimately very destructive. The following paper examines how the communal vision presented in Chopins novel, as it involves society and the cultural oppression of women, illustrates aspects
of the nature of human destruction. The Awakening In this novel, "Edna Pontellier, a young, married woman with two small sons. Edna grows increasingly frustrated with her identity
solely as wife and mother and soon begins to search for her identity as a woman" (Mercurio). She is intelligent and knows she wants and needs more from life and
this is very much, in combination with her social roles as mother and wife, a very communal vision, although perhaps not a vision that many women actually acted on in
Chopins time. In fact, her work was both privately heralded as wondrous, and publicly heralded as wrong indicating that many people could well relate to the character of Edna (Mercurio).
AS the novel develops and Edna works towards finding meaning and creative expression in her life she attempts painting which does not
truly satisfy her. She leaves her husbands home and becomes close friends with an older woman, which gives her a sense that she is understood, however this still does not
satisfy her inner being. It is only when she begins to truly express her passion with other men that she begins to really find a part of herself that is
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