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Even though this novel is framed as a first-wave feminist novel, Edna's choices and decisions do not contribute to the movement as she shows weakness and indecisiveness throughout the story, which would create more opposition to her cause than support.

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While Kate Chopin´s intentions were to write an empowering feminist novel instead she portryaed Edna as a seflish, irresponsible, and cowardly person. 

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While Kate Chopin´s intentions were to write an empowering feminist novel instead she portryaed Edna as a seflish, irresponsible, and cowardly person. 

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The Awakening shows that all men are stupid

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The Awakening does not represent feminism instead it represents cowardice, irresponsiblity, selfishness.

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The Awakening does not represent feminism instead it represents cowardice, irresponsiblity, selfishness.

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The Awakening is not about whether Edna’s actions were selfish or impure, but instead who and what led to the events that transpired. 

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The Awakening is not about whether Edna’s actions were selfish or impure, but instead who and what led to the events that transpired. 

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Chopin uses foil characters to show Edna

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In the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin, throughout the story Edna is never independent the way she wants to be, in one way or another she is always reliant on someone else and never truly lives for herself.

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In the novella, The Awakening, Chopin is writing a social criticism about how the traditionalist attitudes and behaviors of other men and women contrast from and affect the impulsivity of Edna’s radical behaviors and beliefs derived from the growing Progressive Era in the late 1800s.

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In the novella, The Awakening, Chopin is writing a social criticism about how the traditionalist attitudes and behaviors of other men and women contrast from and affect the impulsivity of Edna’s radical behaviors and beliefs derived from the growing Progressive Era in the late 1800s.

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In the novel, The Awakening by Kate Chopin Enda was never truly free or liberated in the way she desired.
updated: she was never truly free from society's expectations or the limiting roles women were given at the time

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In the novel, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, the main character Edna faces various societal struggles in the 19th century such as, motherhood expectations, judgement and insecurity grown from the lives of other women, and marriage issues.

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Throughout the story, Edna kept continually proving how she evades her problems rather than facing them. In the end, she decided to commit suicide over Robert leaving her, and the ordeal of having to take care of her children. Some people believe that Edna’s suicide is her final awakening, and a sign of stregnth, but it was truly a sign of weakness.

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Throughout the story, Edna kept continually proving how she evades her problems rather than facing them. In the end, she decided to commit suicide over Robert leaving her, and the ordeal of having to take care of her children. Some people believe that Edna’s suicide is her final awakening, and a sign of stregnth, but it was truly a sign of weakness.

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The language and imagery used to describe women in the book is a reflection of Chopin’s criticism on the role of women in society in 1899.

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In the novel The Awakening, Kate Chopin does not promote feminism, but promotes lying, neglect, and cheating.

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The Awakening uses Edna to showcase and criticize gender inequality through Edna’s forced marriage, by exploring her forced responsibilities as a housewife, and her inability to make her own choices in life or escape from life.

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Edna's suicide was an acceptance of failure to complete her awakening, as once she becomes lonely, she became hopeless and suicidal.

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The Awakening, a novel written by Kate Chopin, is primarily a social criticism on the gender roles of society.  

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The Awakening, a novel written by Kate Chopin, is primarily a social criticism on the gender roles of society.  

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Throughout the novel, Edna has been chasing happiness in the form of a life with Robert, however she can never be truly happy due to her societal ties and unrealistic expectations. 

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Throughout the novel, Edna has been chasing happiness in the form of a life with Robert, however she can never be truly happy due to her societal ties and unrealistic expectations. 

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Throughout the novel, Edna is split between her inner self and outer self when she hosts the party, when she cheated on her husband with Robert, and when she moved to the “pigeon house” while her husband was away.

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Edna faces many societal struggles throughout the novel which can also be represented in today's society, like the expectation on the women's gender roles, the inequalities women struggle with, and the stigma placed on them by other women.

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Edna faces many societal struggles throughout the novel which can also be represented in today's society, like the expectation on the women's gender roles, the inequalities women struggle with, and the stigma placed on them by other women.

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In The Awakening, although Edna wasn't suicidal during the entire novel, there are certain events that ultimately lead to her death including her children, Robert and her constant responsibilities.

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Chopin suggests that the possibilities for motherhood is either to be a doting mother focused on your children, or to be independent and distance yourself from your children

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Through Edna’s original naiveté, the impulsivity of her suicide, and her quest for independence it can be displayed that in fact she was not suicidal through the whole novella, but rather that her final suicide was an impulsive and preventable outcome.

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In the novel The Awakening, society in the 19th century contrasts with many foundational elements of society now in the 21st century through the treatment of women, racial equalities, and civilizations standards.

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