The awakening, kate chopin, chapiter 10 commentary

The awakening, kate chopin, chapiter 10 commentary

Today i will comment a extract of the awakening written by the kate chopainpresicely the chapite 10  when edn'as learn to swim thak's to the instruction and people which sourround her. In this extract we can saw 3 différentes moments, the texte were structured in 3 part. Edna’s process of self-discovery in The Awakening by Kate Chopin takes place in a series of three significant stages that eventually lead to the death of Edna at the conclusion. the understand this passage i will respond at the folliwing question: What is the real symbolics meaning of Edna’s first successful attempt to swim? In the first part i will talk about Edna’s first swim  like the symbolizes both rebirth and maturation and her awakeningand then i will talk about the incomplete Edna’s awakening.

Indeed Edna’s processxxof self-discoveryxx resultingxx inxxher transformation begins when she uncovers her past to Mrs. Ratignolle.The second significant moment is Edna’s first swimxx. This experience can be viewingsxx the decisive step towards her self-realizationxx because it symbolizes rebirth as well as maturation. It is also the beginning of Edna’s rebellion because through her ability to swim, she discovers her power really water, without “a hand near to reassure her” Edna is described as “the little tottering, stumbling, clutching child, who of a sudden realizes its powers, and walks for the first time alone. Before her awakening, she is afraid to trust the sea although it attracts her. The sea represents truth and loneliness di, a vast expanse of solitude and vulnerability that Edna have long been afraid to enter. However, her relationship with Robert causes that she begins to search her identity. When for the first time in her life and after many unsuccessful attempts, she is finally able to swim; it is a moment of wonder and absolute happiness. Having learned to swim, Edna enjoys her newly gained ability of having control over her body. She “grew daring and overestimated her strength” when she wanted to swim “far out, where no woman had swum before”. We observes the swim to liberate her and in the same time make her independent on the help of others. As she finds the strength within herself, she relies it, which makes her feel that she can do anything. She finds out that she is no longer dependent on others, she is herself, She is strong enough and wants to explore unknown, wants to swim beyond the point any woman at Grand Isle had swum. This appear to symbolize Edna’s awakening desire to escape of her conventional roles of mother and shur as a wife. One woman, a woman unable to swim walks into the sea, and another, who has swum further than she expected possible, comes out. Awakened, reborn Edna does not yet understand her change completely: “A thousand emotions have swept through me tonight. I don’t comprehend half of them” . However, since that moment she is a new woman living a new life.“How easy it is!” she thought. “It is nothing,” she said aloud; “why did I not discover before that it was nothing. Think of the time I have lost splashing about like a baby!” As the above extract shows, the awakened Edna is aware of her before awakening immaturity. During the first six years of her marriage, Edna always comforted to her husband’s authority as a child obeys their parents. Nevertheless, du to her first swim experience she decide no longer be ruled as a child. Due to the realization how easy the swimming is, she gains confidence and “I can manage anything” feeling. She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam, she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself. “swimming and fly are metaphors of woman’s access to power”. While swimming, Edna awakened, left her childhood in the water and became an independent woman aware of her power. This woman can valu herself and be her own person. She obeys nobody but herself -she stays outside when her husband asks her to go inside, she has a courage to even leave her husband and move into her own house, she can paint when she wants, she can love and even have illegitimate sex with  whomever she chooses.  

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