Comparing and Contrasting Hannah Crafts and Edna Pontellier
Throughout the years one has been searching for who they are, their identity. In both novels The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts and The Awakening by Kate Chopin both Crafts and Mrs. Pontiteller were looking for who they were. Religion, society, and friends played a major role in search for their identity. Although obstacles were put in front of them, in the end they continued with their identity and searching for their freedom. Crafts a slave had obstacles of how she was physically and mentally enslaved. For Crafts its was more difficult to discover herself, on the other hand Mrs. Pontellier at liberty to search for herself, couldn't because she was enslaved by society. She couldn't express how she felt, because society didn't see it as womanly like. Comparing and contrasting both the Bondwoman's Narrative and the Awakening, Craft is trying to escape physical and mental enslavement, as for Mrs. Pontellier tries to escape society, in order for both of them to discover.Their paths were different from each other, but hey were both looking for their identity. Craft born as a slave and she described how she hate it when she says "I used to hate slavery born in a slave state, educated in a slave state, with slavery all the tim
They both had certain beliefs that sort of identified their identity. Crafts thought " But those who think that the greatest evils of slavery possess no just or rational ideas of human nature. The soul immortal soul must ever long and yearn for a thousand things inseperable to liberty. Then, too, the fear, the apprehension, the dread and deep anxiety always attending that condition in greater or less degree"(BWN.pp.94). She believed that slavery was no good thing but there was nothing she could do about. Further more Mrs. Pontellier believed " I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something which I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me." (A.pp.80.). She sees that she would give up her life for her children but she is not sure if she would actually we do that because she would not give up herself. But doesn't that mean that she would give up herself, her life. e before my eyes could see no beauties in the system."(BWN. pp.84). Crafts saw that she was physically enslaved but her mind wasn't She thought this is what she was a slave, and had to accept it no matter wh
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