https://padlet.com/18messierd/4ike9nz3z4oc 3 Connections between texts en-us 2017-06-08 11:26:10 UTC 2017-06-08 12:07:58 UTC hello@padlet.com 18messierd https://padlet.com/18messierd/4ike9nz3z4oc/wish/175711143 "Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility" (Stanton)
"Who, I ask you, can take, dare take, on himself the rights, the duties, the responsibilities of another human soul" (Stanton)
"'...Mademoiselle, I am going to move away from my house on Esplanade Street" (Chopin 294)
"I know I shall like it, like the feeling of freedom and independence" (Chopin 295)
These quotes show the independence that Stanton writes about in "Solitude of Self". She believes that individual responsibility is a great characteristic and she cannot allow someone to take away the rights of someone else. Similarly to Stanton, Edna will not allow her husband to control her life and she decides to move out of her house where she will enjoy the independence that comes with being a women who lives alone.

]]> 2017-06-08 11:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/18messierd/4ike9nz3z4oc/wish/175711143 18kingj https://padlet.com/18messierd/4ike9nz3z4oc/wish/175711231 In Solitude of Self, Elizabeth Cady Stanton discusses the "individuality of each human soul" (Stanton 1), and how every person is their own individual, through soul, conscience, and citizenship. In The Awakening, Edna is her own person as she does not seem to fit into the social norms of being a "mother woman" (Chopin 181), and her individuality is what strikes contrast between her and the other characters. Chopin writes that "[Edna] was not a woman given to confidences... Even as a child she had lived her own small life all within herself" (Chopin 190), showing Edna's distinctiveness as she is not somebody who fits in with the crowd. ]]> 2017-06-08 11:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/18messierd/4ike9nz3z4oc/wish/175711231 https://padlet.com/18messierd/4ike9nz3z4oc/wish/175712069 Elizabeth Cady Stanton mentions in her address "Solitude of Self" of the individual traits of women. One point she alludes to is of the issues encountered during pregnancy. According to Stanton, "Whatever the theories may be of women's dependence on man, in the supreme moments of her life he can not bear her burdens" (3). In relation to Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Edna Pontellier, the main character, goes through a rebirth of herself in a thirty-nine long week journey. Near the end of the novel, Edna visits her friend Adele, a friend who was pregnant since the beginning of the novel. When seeing Adele go through the pain, Edna "Recalled an ecstasy of pain, the heavy odor of chloroform, a stupor which had deadened sensation, and an awakening to find a little new life to which she had given being, added to the great unnumbered multitude of souls that come and go" (Chopin 343). Both descriptions convey how women face immeasurable pain; doctors follow specific procedures and a wife's significant other can only be support. A procedure that only women go through, pregnancy is displayed as a painful, yet important experience by both authors.]]> 2017-06-08 11:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/18messierd/4ike9nz3z4oc/wish/175712069