Posted by Amber Sughrue (64.30.110.147) on July 12, 2005 at 1:55:36 p.m.:
In Reply to: Re: Question Two: The Awakening posted by Kammy Sahota on July 11, 2005 at 8:51:42 p.m.:
>In reading the Seneca falls declaration I felt I was reading the mind of Edna Pontellier. Throughout you could see her frustrations from what felt like the oppression of her husband Leoncee and and a yearning for freedom that manifested itself in the form of her lusting after numerous men to show that she was not under the control of her husband. Edna wanted to be free of her husband and his control as she saved her drawing money as a way of gaining the economic independence that most women of the time were not fortunate enough to have, and had her own property which at the time of Seneca falls was almost unheard of. It is easy to see how the Seneca falls declaration would fit the sentiments shared by Edna Pontellier.
You comments are really good. I also saw how the freedoms these women wanted and expressed in the Seneca Falls very much represent the freedom Edna went after. She broke out of traditional roles and aspired for many of the same things the women who of the Seneca Falls did.