The Awakening written by Kate Chopin, incorporates several significant events regarding the mental and psychological changes in the characters, as well as in the setting. Edna’s process of self discovery in the Awakening takes place in a series of three significant stages that eventually leads to Edna’s death. Before Edna began to discover herself, she is caught between her desires to explore herself and and the realities of the Victorian era image for women. This is around the time where Edna’s conciseness changed and her mental began to alter. It is not until the first stage in her awakening, that the combination of music and the at sea baptism that she found herself drifting into a much deeper self awareness and awaking?
Throughout the novel Edna begins to loose her identity as a typical average mother as well as giving home her home obligations and role as a wife. In the second stage of her “awakening”. Is clearly shown to the reader her new found sexuality, and creativity. She finds the roles of being a good wife to her husband demanding and unnecessary. In her third stage of her awakening Edna realizes that she cannot completely reach her dreams without taking ownership of her responsibilities of the society she was forced into Edna submerges into the sea, the setting in which her baptism into
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Like a child, Edna is seen acting implausibly to the first thing that pops into her head, she is too hasty with her decision. In the novel Chopins stated, “They were women who idolized their children, worshipped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angles.” Towards the end of the novel the Awakening is left with the feeling that Edna could never attain what she has imagined herself to