Posted by Gary Walmer (67.172.168.223) on July 11, 2005 at 7:26:58 p.m.:
In Reply to: Re: Question Two: The Awakening posted by Kim Mraz on July 11, 2005 at 5:59:19 p.m.:
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>>Discuss The Awakening in terms of The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments, a required reading linked at the Chopin Links page. Read and Reply to others by by Tuesday at 10 pm
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Hi Kim
Your point that Edna is able to live out some of the Declarations outcomes is well taken. It was over 50 years earlier the document was drafted, and the struggle for those very freedoms was still being fought for. I think the only difference is that Chopin's character s willing to sacrifice her own life for the lost love of a man. Almost a paradox in light of the Declaration don't you think?
Gary
>Edna as the main character in the novel "The Awakening" expresses herself through experiencing many of the sentiments. Edna shows that she can be independent and is a very brave woman. I say thins because she decides to move out from under her husbands wing. She moves out and leaves behind her husband and her children. She was not a really good "housewife" or was not the "traditional" housewife for those times. Edna shows her ambition to do well on her own by fighting for her equal rights as the Sentiments read. Edna learned to make her own money through selling her works of art to strolling people. Althrough she is making her own money now, she still accepts a little help from her husband. Even with that little help she can afford to live and provide for herself for those days. She shows a great deal of independence as a women during the creation of "The Declaration of Sentiments." She shows how the Sentiments come into play for all women.