Edna a Bad or Good Mother?
Edna_a bad or good mother?
Edna is a main character of the Awakening. She not only acknowledge her sexual desire but also has courage to act on them. (from Analysis of Major Characters). She is really respectable woman in Grand Isle. However. When we consider her as a mother, is she a good mother?
Edna has a close friend whose name is Adele Ratignolle. Their philosophies and attitudes toward child rearing differ fundamentally. Adele is described “was the embodiment of every womanly grace and charm”. She has been marriage seven years and has three babies. Adele adores her husband and idolises her children. She sacrifices personal identity to devote her entire being to care of her children, husband and household. She feel delicious in the role so she can do everything because of them. She loves and take care of her brood carefully. She saw winter garment for her children openly makes references to her pregnency. Moreover, the mother is willing to extended protecting wings when she feel something or someone threatened her brood, which like the hen extend wings to save chicken from hawks. Adele is gentle and thoughtful, a ideal mother that every children wish.
Unlike Adele, Edna's husband_Leonce perceives difference between his wife and the other women, who “esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels”. Although Edna married and had two children, her passion is so flaming that she pass over the role of a woman. She discovered her own identity independent of her husband and her children. Edna “was not a mother-woman”, Instead of worshiping husband and taking care of children, she declared herself independent. She ignores her role. I supposes that a child took a tumble while at play, what happen? Certain;y, his mother will pick himself up hurriedly, wipe his tears and comfort him. However, Edna did not do the same thing, if one of her sons get similar situation, “he was not apt to rush
Edna is a main character of the Awakening. She not only acknowledge her sexual desire but also has courage to act on them. (from Analysis of Major Characters). She is really respectable woman in Grand Isle. However. When we consider her as a mother, is she a good mother?
Edna has a close friend whose name is Adele Ratignolle. Their philosophies and attitudes toward child rearing differ fundamentally. Adele is described “was the embodiment of every womanly grace and charm”. She has been marriage seven years and has three babies. Adele adores her husband and idolises her children. She sacrifices personal identity to devote her entire being to care of her children, husband and household. She feel delicious in the role so she can do everything because of them. She loves and take care of her brood carefully. She saw winter garment for her children openly makes references to her pregnency. Moreover, the mother is willing to extended protecting wings when she feel something or someone threatened her brood, which like the hen extend wings to save chicken from hawks. Adele is gentle and thoughtful, a ideal mother that every children wish.
Unlike Adele, Edna's husband_Leonce perceives difference between his wife and the other women, who “esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels”. Although Edna married and had two children, her passion is so flaming that she pass over the role of a woman. She discovered her own identity independent of her husband and her children. Edna “was not a mother-woman”, Instead of worshiping husband and taking care of children, she declared herself independent. She ignores her role. I supposes that a child took a tumble while at play, what happen? Certain;y, his mother will pick himself up hurriedly, wipe his tears and comfort him. However, Edna did not do the same thing, if one of her sons get similar situation, “he was not apt to rush