Louisiana. This particular Gulf island was for the creole' elite. The Awakening focuses on a

particular woman named Edna and her life's endeavors in the late eighteen hundreds. The novella

features wives that feel enslaved, mistreated, and wives that are content with there expectancies

of being a woman of the south. The Awakening gives you the relationship, a tension between the

need in peoples lives for sensuality, for the physical, and for the innocense we need to complete

those emotions. In this story we will explore morality, the rigidity of Catholicism, and what the

The various settings in the book explain much of the feelings Edna is experiencing and

ingesting. Edna's emotions seem to jump around a lot giving you the roller coaster ride of what it

was to be a woman in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. You will examine your

character, strength, and what individual elements of your sexuality you find threatening. For

example, you can prepare your mind an exploration of the unsparing truth of women's

the reason why they couldn't be lovers.

part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish. It was like a shadow, like

one of us; she is not like us. She might make the unfortunate blunder of taking you seriously"

an "Awakening" to the tribulations of Edna's temptations.

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Approximate Word count = 1380
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)