growaw Chopins The Awakening as a Tragic Bildingsroman :: Chopin Awakening Essays

The Awakening as a Tragic Bildingsroman I pay back always considered this a tragic bildingsroman A professor suggested that this was a neck story. If it is its love of self or finding it. It is no more of a love story than Call of the Wild. I guess because it has a fair sex and love it constitutes a love story. I agree that Reiz symbolized romantic maneuver and ideals and Mme. Ratignolle. However Edna was less romantic because her confinement was real. Betty Freudian has this same course of problem in the Feminist Mystique. A physical independence as symbolized by the birds seems to be the best analogy for her needs through emerge the book. I didnt think the hypertext guide quite covered this. Birds were endue throughout the novel, in dreams and in her life (more than just that parrot). The fact that she was non able to be confined by anything which demanded her caged, her children, her husband. She did non enjoy these hatful or their cages because they used her for thei r own gain. A guy suggested in some other class that she should have thought about that before she was married and had kids. I guess that would be easy for someone to say who will neer bear children or held accountable for their existence, or dependence on him. (NO, not all men are this bad) Her sorrow over Mme. Ratignolles child birth represented a birth in herself. An wake up that she had been reborn. By the way, the hypertext did not explain all the awakenings she under went or parallel of latitude them with the times she woke up and went to sleep. She tells her husband that marriage is a lamentable spectacle. At the cottage with Robert, she was not Sleeping Beauty but a tear Van Winkle. Sleeping Beauty was passive, Edna certainly was not that. The cottage I felt represented indulgence almost gluttony without the negative connotation. She is in the long run enjoying herself- HER- Self. The church was another oppressive cage in her life. Every put forward of it in the book was a negative one although Edna says that she is religious. It just happens that her encounters with it in the book are miserable. In addition, I felt the peal were not explained. There are at least five separate mentions of rings throughout the novel, each at critical times.