Marriage - The Awakening
- Created by: marypye118
- Created on: 17-06-19 12:46
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- Marriage
- Eternity
- "She silently reached out to him." "The rings sparkled upon her fingers"
- [the wedding ring] "she stamped her heel upon it striving to crush it" but "did not make an indenture, not a mark upon the little glittering circlet"
- TIMER - "gold survives the fire that's hot enough" "'eternity' inscribed...his surety that they'd be together 'later'"
- Contrast in Harrison's "gold" as representative of marriage as valuable. Also contrast in casual tone, marriage as a powerful bond, defying death.
- Lack of Love
- "monotonous, insistent way" "instructed" etc
- "The ladies... all declared that Mr Pontellier was the best husband in the whole world. Mrs Pontellier was forced to admit that she knew of none better"
- Societal Requirement
- "provided for her external existence"
- "her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse"
- "looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property"
- TALKING IN BED - "an emblem"
- Having a solid definition does not result in an ease in living,
- Entrapment
- Hypnotic Restraint
- "domestic harmony... was not a condition of life which fitted her" "a pity of that colourless existence"
- "the voices [of the sky and the stars above] were not soothing..they jeered and sounded mournful notes without promise, devoid of even hope"
- "the deep tangle of the garden" "mystery and witchery amid the perfumes and the dusky and tortuous outlines of flowers"
- ONE FLESH - "a destination, For which their whole lives were a preparation"
- "silence between them like a thread"
- TALKING IN BED - "Dark towns heap up on the horizon"
- Expectations of optimism from a horizon
- Threatening, intimidating effects
- "In a sweeping passion...She wanted to destroy something"
- "Her face was flushed and her eyes flamed"
- "little stinging, buzzing imps succeeded in dispelling a mood which might have held her there in the darkness"
- ONE FLESH- "Chastity faces them"
- Isolation of restrained individuality
- "that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world"
- "accustomed to harbour thoughts and emotions"
- "The street...an alien world which had suddenly become antagonistic"
- "a pity of that colourless existence
- FOR MY LOVER - "like a monument...she is solid. As for me, I am a watercolour"
- Hypnotic Restraint
- Freedom
- "blowing out the candle which her husband had left burning"
- "He was naked. His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him"
- ONE FLESH - "Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion"
- Sense of sadness - contrast from Edna's complete disregard of husband and emotionless description of his vulnerability
- ONE FLESH - "Tossed up like flotsam from a former passion"
- // TIMER // ONE FLESH // TALKING IN BED // FOR MY LOVER //
- Eternity
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