Scene Analysis – the AwakeningEssay title: Scene Analysis – the Awakening„Edna had found her old bathing suit still hanging, faded, upon its accustomed peg.She put it on, leaving her clothing in the bath-house. But when she was there beside the sea, absolutely alone, she cast the unpleasant, pricking garments from her, and for the first time in her life she stood naked in the open air, at the mercy of the sun, the breeze that beat upon her, and the waves that invited her.
How strange and awful it seemed to stand naked under the sky! how delicious! She felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known.
The foamy wavelets curled up to her white feet and coiled like serpents about her ankles. She walked out. The water was chill but she walked on. The water was deep, but she lifted her white body and reached out with a long, sweeping stroke. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace.”
The Awakening, Chapter XXXIX, Page 160.The novel “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin tells the story of Edna Pontellier, a woman, who is held in chains by the social conventions common to the late nineteenth century, where the story takes place. One day Edna awakens out of the role given to her by society and begins to listen to her inner wishes and feelings which guide her to her “self”. From now on Edna developes to an independent and liberate young woman, who lives her life for herself, not for her husband and not for her children as it would have been expected of a woman out of this time. She gives up her old life to start a new one. It seems as if Edna closes every door behind her, so that there will not be a way back into her past life even if she wanted to take it.
[quote=Toni]As for us, the first part of the novel, “Kurze” was really just “The Awakening” and the fifth part, “Welovitz” was really just “ The Awakening” where Edna comes to life with her mother of 18 years, Marie, who shares a childhood time with a young children’s mother, Toni. The book is about the struggle between the vernacular community of Moscow, where the social conventions are different from those in the rest of Eastern Europe, and the vernacular world that is to be found in Russian and English language. As for vernacular is not the same as the vernacular people; the difference is the language of the people that follow the laws in the social conventions and from one side of the vernacular people are the ones to follow the laws, the vernacular people are the people who follow the laws, so the story is “The Awakening” where Edna goes up against these rules of vernacular in order to live with her and be free to live free from vernacular as well.
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The passage above shows Edna at the end of her self-discovery journey. It shows her back at the place where the story had begun: at the beach of Grand Isle. After the reader has accompanied Edna through the whole novel, the story has come full circle now. The protagonist reached a point where there is no way back. But even the social conventions are too strong to be broken through by a progressive woman Edna Pontellier stands for. Although
it can not be proved textual, the reader understands that Edna at the end commits suicide and drowns herself in the sea.The language Kate Chopin uses in this passage is very pictoral and romantic. She makes use of many adjectives and comparisons to create a vivid story that catches the readers attention, for example: “[] The foamy wavelets […] coiled like serpents […]” (line 8). Chopin also uses methaphors to intensify the figurativeness of this passage such as in line 4 “[…] the mercy of the sun […]” and in line 10 “[…] the touch of the sea […]”. But especially the last three sentences are different from the whole passage. Chopin begins every one of them anaphorically with the article “The”. Furthermore they share the same syntax, which indicates the importance of this passage for the whole novel, since these sentences reflect the last perceptions of the protagonist.
Kate Chopin effectively uses the the third person narrator allowing the reader to see the world as Edna Pontellier experiences it while at the same time to see her through the eyes of a god-like creature who already knows