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Karolina [17]
3 years ago
6

How does Edna’s character illustrate the theme that society pressures women to fill specific roles? Use examples and evidence fr

om the text to support your answer.
English
2 answers:
Y_Kistochka [10]3 years ago
8 0
 Edna Pontellier was a controversial character. She upset many nineteenth century expectations for women and their supposed roles. One of her most shocking actions was her denial of her role as a mother and wife. Kate Chopin displays this rejection gradually, but the concept of motherhood is major theme throughout the novel.
Edna is fighting against the societal and natural structures of motherhood that force her to be defined by her title as wife of Leonce Pontellier and mother of Raoul and Etienne Pontellier, instead of being her own, self-defined individual. Through Chopin’s focus on two other female characters, Adele Ratignolle and Mademoiselle Reisz, Edna’s options of life paths are exhibited.
These women are the examples that the men around Edna contrast her with and from whom they obtain their expectations for her. Edna, however, finds both role models lacking and begins to see that the life of freedom and individuality that she wants goes against both society and nature. The inevitability of her fate as a male-defined creature brings her to a state of despair, and she frees herself the only way she can, through suicide.
Misha Larkins [42]3 years ago
3 0

During the time period of The Awakening, society pressured women to fill the role of a mother.


Edna does not feel that she is well suited for the role of being a mother.


The conflict between society’s expectations and Edna’s own identity results in her dissatisfaction with life.

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