Duty and Morality - The Awakening
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- Duty, Morality, and Consequences
- False Hope and Optimism
- Break Down of Previous Hope
- "the large dining room looked solemn and shadowy"
- "the light sputtered and went out"
- "sudden and brief flare of the match emphasised the darkness"
- [thriving from vulnerability] "how strange and awful..to stand naked under the sky! how delicious! She felt like some new born creature..."
- PUNISH-MENT - "the wind on her naked front. It blows her *******"
- Edna still shows strength in death, her new self is what she strived for, she herself doesn't blame or doubt herself, rather it was merely the fault of society - the society of her time were not ready, prepared to handle her strength and independence
- "flaxen-haired...beautiful" VS "brain's exposed... muscles' webbing"
- PUNISH-MENT - "the wind on her naked front. It blows her *******"
- "a bird with a broken wing...circling disabled down, down to the water"
- PUNISH-MENT - "she was a barked sapling [now] dug up oak-bone"
- "He was naked. His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him"
- "the bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings"
- "light was beginning to dawn dimly within her"
- "the candelabra, with a few candles... gave all the light she needed"
- "a flaming torch that kindled desire"
- + [fairy-tale romance of Robert]
- THE LOVE POEM - "love's light fading, darkening, black as ink on a page"
- PUNISH-MENT - "she was a barked sapling [now] dug up oak-bone"
- Break Down of Previous Hope
- Social Conventions
- Edna's Sense of Self
- "recognise her relations as an individual to the world"
- "enabling her to look upon and comprehend the significance of life"
- "a mist had been lifted from her eyes"
- "The children appeared before her like antagonists..."
- "little stinging buzzing imps..."
- "alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic.."
- "was not a condition of life which fitted her...pity of that colourless existence"
- "the voices [of the sky and stars above] ... jeered and sounded mournful notes..."
- FOR MY LOVER - "the children are there like delicate balloons..."
- "like a monument... she is solid...I am watercolour"
- Edna's Sense of Self
- False Hope and Optimism
- // FOR MY LOVER // LOVE POEM // PUNISH-MENT //
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