Edna’s Symbolic Swim in The Awakening :: Chopin Awakening

Ednas emblematical Swim in The AwakeningReading through The Awakening for the get-go time, a passage in chapter X intrigued me Ednas prototypical productive swim. I begin my c unload reading halfway through summon 49, precisely that night she was like the little tottering, stumbling, clutching child, who of a sudden realizes its powers, and walks for the initiatory time alone, boldly and with over-confidence. Her success is sudden and in spite of care from the men and women in some instances from the children throughout the summer. Robert himself had devised a system of lessons. But her triumph does not result from any such assistance, but from her avouch abilities. By comparing the screw to a childs first steps, it conjures imagery she herself must have experienced with her give children, which is emphasized by referring to the child rather than a child. Before her triumph, she totters, stumbles, and literally clutches at any hand nearby that might reach out and insure h er, always requiring the assistance or reassurance of some others. But on this night, her powers, which by lawfulness of the strength of such a word choice suggests its relevance to furthermost more than swimming, overtake her. It is significant she does it alone, and her over-confidence possibly foreshadows the last. A feeling of rejoicing overtook her, as if some power of significant import had been given her to envision the working of her body and her nous implies the tremendous joy that encourages her to shout, as wellspring as underscores the significance of the experience in terms of the greater awakening, for the experience actually does provide Edna with the ability to control her own body and soul for the first time. Her daring and reckless behavior, her overestimation of strength, and the desire to swim farthest out, where no woman had swum before all suggest the tragic conclusion that awaits Edna. Whether her awakening leads her to want too much, or her desires a re not to the full compatible with the society in which she lives, she goes too far in her awakening. astounded at the ease of her new power, she specifically does not collapse the other groups of people in the water, but rather goes off to swim alone. Indeed, her own awakening ultimately ends up being solitary, particularly in her refusals to join in social expectations. Here, the water presents her with space and solitude, with the unlimited in which to lose herself.