This paper attempts to investigate the negative impacts of Edna’s awakening. It depicts how the discovery f her self and the awakening she encounters stands against her patriarchal society and leads her to live in isolation and alienation. The present paper depicts how Edna’s awakening makes her reject her position in the society as a woman, wife, mother, and lover. Further, it shows how Edna’s sexual and sensual awakening makes her involved with love affairs with other men out of marriage. Moreover, this paper explains how her awakenning causes a traumatic effect on her personality and her life. She suffers from strong isolation and alienation as a result of the quick process of her awakening. Finally, this paper finds out how her awakening leads her to end her life and commit suicide.
Kate Chopin was born in 1850 and died in 1904. She is
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Chopin’s personal life creates her feminist characteristic and develops the feminist themes of her novels. Her works were forgetting after her death. In 1950, scholars recognize that most of Chopin’s works such as The Awakening are remarkable and essential works in America. The Awakening is mainly interested in feminism and other gender issues. The novel focuses on many feminine themes such as liberation of the females, isolation and selfhood, maternity, death and life, love and marriage. Chopin protests against many ideas of the masculine society and stands against the sexist aphorism that says, “Women are another category of handicap”. Further more, in the novel, she describes how men are sexist because they “promote the belief that