Feminist Analysis Of Kate Chopin's The Awakening

If women were not part of this world, a lot would not have changed throughout the years. For example, without women filling in for the men’s jobs during WW1, America could not be able to win the war with Japan. Women have done so much that people do not realize that women are behind the true success of certain actions. A human is all about making people choose their own choices rather than being labeled and told what to do. Feminist analysis is all about recognizing the different stages of social power that men and women have in political, social, and in economic views. Authors like Donald Hall have expressed their perspective on feminist analysis and believe that women cannot be able to express themselves and demonstrate the same qualities
In Kate Chopin's novel “The Awakening” it focuses on the perspective of a rebellious Edna seeking for self-understanding and love. According to Chopin, “ How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky! How delicious! She felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known ” (124). The quote portrays a different figure of Edna. She is stepping out of social roles,as a mother and wife, feeling like a woman who is now free and has the ability to express herself in every way because she views the world with new eyes and feels liberated from the oppression she was living in. The ocean in the scene symbolizes escape and freedom because water associates with cleansing, emphasizing her rebirth and the strength Edna has an individual. Edna does not consider the needs or desires of anyone else but herself and is now seeing the other side, she has never seen before because she was so blind not realizing that her husband would make her feel invisible and unimportant in their marriage. Men would not give them their part in marriage to demonstrate women's capacity of doing things because it was only the way of how the men wanted it. Any woman should not be afraid to express themselves because they play a huge role in society and have the power to
In her book, “The Story of An Hour”, Chopin maintains that “ There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself ” (2). This quote demonstrates what it felt to be a woman in the nineteenth century. It tells the reader that she was living in a bad environment, but got accustomed to it, but, then soon felt free knowing that she was now independent and living for herself. Women had to live with the husbands power and status that they never had a chance to do whatever they wanted to. Now that her husband died, she can be able to live her life, how she wants to, instead of her husband leading it for her. Chopin also states, “ When the doctors came, they said she had died of a heart disease--of the joy that kills “ (2). The removal of the intense joy after seeing her husband led her to her death. She felt disappointment seeing that her loss of freedom would disappear, creating a negative view in marriage. It destroyed her vision of a new life and start and reveals that she died from the emotions she felt rather than her