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A woman would give up everything, except her self.
“I would give up the unessential; I would give up my money, I would give up my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself. I can't make it more clear; it's only something I am beginning to comprehend, which is revealing itself to me.” ― Kate Chopin, The Awakening
The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a landmark story of early feminism and a look at a 19th century woman who struggles to embrace her duties as a wife and mother in the American South. This book is required reading in many high school and college English courses.
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The Awakening (Xist Classics), by Kate Chopin- Amazon Sales Rank: #113570 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-25
- Released on: 2015-03-25
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From Library Journal This gorgeous edition of Chopin's 1899 classic features period photos of the novel's New Orleans location and a durable plastic dust jacket.Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review "Shelly Frasier's reading is thick with languor and sensuality as she creates an Edna who feels all but physically present."---AudioFile
From the Publisher First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics and the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read and admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, and her awakening to desires and passions that threated to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old Edna Pontellier is a landmark in American fiction, rooted firmly in the romantic tradition of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. Here, a woman in search of self-discovery turns away from convention and society, and toward the primal, from convention and society, and toward the primal, irresistibly attracted to nature and the sensesThe Awakening, Kate Chopin's last novel, has been praised by Edmund Wilson as "beautifully written." And Willa Cather described its style as "exquisite," "sensitive," and "iridescent." This edition of The Awakening also includes a selection of short stories by Kate Chopin.
"This seems to me a higher order of feminism than repeating the story of woman as victim... Kate Chopin gives her female protagonist the central role, normally reserved for Man, in a meditation on identity and culture, consciousness and art." -- From the introduction by Marilynne Robinson.
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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful. Edna's Exit: Why? By Martin Asiner When THE AWAKENING was first published at the end of the 19th century, Kate Chopin was roundly criticized for what her critics saw as her attempts to subvert the "normal" order of the male superiority to women. She found it difficult to find a publisher for her future works, and it took a very long time before this book was resurrected by a growing feminist movement that saw in Edna Pontellier a potent symbol of a woman who was willing to pay the ultimate penalty to shed the patriarchal shackles that bound American women.Edna is a twenty-nine year old woman, married, has children, and in thoroughly conventional, at least at the start. But Chopin uses foreshadowing to indicate that all is not well in the Pontellier household. Her husband is a much older stuffy bear of a man who thinks in a stereotypical fashion that today's feminists would term male chauvinist. When Edna comes in with a sunburn, he looks at her "as one looks at a valuable piece of property." As long as Edna remains valuable in the sense that she maintains her status of subservience, then as far as he is concerned, all is well with her, and by extension, their relationship. As Edna begins to show slight but measurable changes in her personality, it becomes clear that when he married Edna, he married a woman who was normalized to function only in the narrow confines of her immediate surroundings. But change she does in a way that Chopin ironically notes: "He thought it very discouraging that his wife, who was the sole object of his existence, evinced so little interest in things which concerned him and valued so little his conversation." Not only does Chopin indicate that Edna is drifting away from her husband but also toward a state of depressive non-existence: "An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish." This anguish becomes increasingly pronounced as she attempts to fill the void with an affair with Robert Lebrun, who says that he has fallen in love with her, but he soon enough takes off to Mexico. When she later questions him why he left and why she was the one to contact him, he replied that he loved her too much to maintain contact with a married woman.The pivotal point occurs at the end when Edna takes off her clothes and strolls out into the sea and drowns. Her motivation is not clear, possibly because Kate Chopin takes the actions of a woman who had been portrayed as strong-willed enough to leave her husband and children, find suitable accommodations for herself, and aggressively pursue the object of her affections. True, he dumps her with a note, which she uses as the reason for her suicide. Was her death wish the result of a woman who has suddenly turned weak-willed enough to allow her depression to overwhelm her or was Chopin using Edna To Make A Statement about the rights of an oppressed gender? No one has yet devised a suitable motivation but her closing call of death serves to warn us that the complexities of an unfulfilled life, when unaddressed, can lead to tragedy. Edna's exit certainly attests to that.
19 of 26 people found the following review helpful. Not a feminist book.. By Reader55112 Many persist in saying that this is a feminist book. It is not. This is a book for men and women, it teaches about integrity of emotion. The evidence that the main character is a woman who leaves her husband in a time when it was taboo is really not enough. Was she particularly courageous, honest or good? No. She was simply a vulnerable woman who was victim to her own troubled sea of emotions. Edna is a tragic figure, she always seems to be searching for something.. and she doesn't know what it is or where to find it. Yet the mere fact that she is searching, that she is open to something greater than the trivialities of life makes her an intriguing character. Edna's viewpoint is terribly colored, however. For to her, it seems as though she is the only one with this sensual longing. She never bothers to give anyone else a chance, and chances are, if they're like the rest of us, they've felt a similar pull at some point. But instead of harnessing this feeling, Edna succumbs to it. She retreats into herself and simply gives up on life. She resorts to shameless pursuit of self, she lives to please her momentary whims. She never considers that her husband loves her or that she has vowed to be faithful. Edna only considers that she doesn't love him, and she will make no sacrifices for anyone else as long as her own debaucheric pleasures are at stake.If I were rating Edna, I would give her one star. But I'm rating the book, and I must consider that its overall effect was powerful. That Kate Chopin's diction was lyrical and her imagery potent. That the message of this book, though tainted by the miserable and futile Edna, resounds. This is not a feminist message. It means nothing more for women than it does for men. The message is that we must always strive for the integrity of emotion. That we must force ourselves to reach beyond the superficial in life and grasp the true and lasting. Poor Edna was so close to discovering this, but she abused the longings she felt and misinterpreted them. Perhaps if she'd only had that talk with the doctor.....
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. A Period Piece… or not? By Roger Brunyate I read this feminist classic (for the first time, amazingly) in a splendid Simon & Schuster hardbound edition from 1996, which is not listed here; I mention it only because it so strongly shaped my expectations. Beautifully printed, on generously-sized pages of thick paper, it was a joy to read and to hold. The tone was set from the start by the gallery of period photographs offered as a preface. Beginning with a dark and painterly photo of wind-blown pines on the barrier island of Grand Isle, where much of the novella is set, it moved on to views of the Bayou country, a New Orleans street, women in drawing rooms taking tea or listening to music, dark interiors, a sun-bleached veranda, and a glorious sea-bathing scene like a French Impressionist painting. Together, they are a time machine, transporting us to a different place and era, Southern Louisiana at the very end of the 19th century. Kate Chopin's book was published in 1899.And you read it like a period piece at first too. It opens in Madame Lebrun's guest house on Grand Isle, where families from New Orleans would take one of the cottages connected by walkways to the main house, the wives and children staying for the entire summer, their husbands working in their New Orleans banks or brokerages and joining them for weekends. A relaxed routine of trips to the beach, meals in the big house, and informal gatherings in the evening devoted to music, recitations, or playing cards. The young Madame Edna Pontellier, the Kentucky bride of a Creole businessman, is there with her two young children and their quadroon nurse, with young Robert Lebrun, son of their hostess and half-a-dozen years her junior, dancing attendance, fetching fans or cooling drinks, and reading to her when requested to do so. Nothing is meant by it; there is nothing to hide from her husband; it is just part of the life of a young and pretty lady of leisure. A life punctuated by picayune problems and restrained celebrations, all of which Chopin describes with sly humor:-- The ice-cream was passed around with cake -- gold and silver cake arranged on platters in alternate slices; it had been made and frozen during the afternoon back of the kitchen by two black women, under the supervision of Victor. It was pronounced a great success—excellent if it had only contained a little less vanilla or a little more sugar, if it had been frozen a degree harder, and if the salt might have been kept out of portions of it. Victor was proud of his achievement, and went about recommending it and urging every one to partake of it to excess.I notice that one edition of the book describes it as a "classic tale of infidelity," as though it were a bayou MADAME BOVARY. But it is not that. Edna Pontellier's Awakening is not about taking a lover, but about realizing herself as an independent human being, her own mistress and the property of no one. I expected this. Some years ago, I adapted Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" of 1894 into a chamber opera. In this, a woman's devastation at the news of her husband's death in a railroad accident turns within the hour to the jubilant realization that she is now free. By comparison with that two-page story, the nine-month span of the novella seemed at first an indulgence, less effective because so much less compressed.But I didn't take account of what Chopin was doing on the inside, and how the slow development is essential to its effect. For while apparently focusing on trivia, the author is really looking beyond them into her character's mind. There is a scene about a third of the way into the book when another guest, the diminutive and vaguely malevolent Mademoiselle Reisz, a professional musician, is prevailed upon to play the piano. Once more, Chopin uses her gentle humor to pin Madame Pontellier's butterfly taste:-- Edna was what she herself called very fond of music. Musical strains, well rendered, had a way of evoking pictures in her mind. […] Another piece called to her mind a dainty young woman clad in an Empire gown, taking mincing steps as she came down a long avenue between tall hedges. Again, another reminded her of children at play, and still another of nothing on earth but a demure lady stroking a cat.But Mlle. Reisz's playing has a totally different effect upon her:-- The very first chords which Mademoiselle Reisz struck upon the piano sent a keen tremor down Mrs. Pontellier's spinal column. It was not the first time she had heard an artist at the piano. Perhaps it was the first time she was ready, perhaps the first time her being was tempered to take an impress of the abiding truth. She waited for the material pictures which she thought would gather and blaze before her imagination. She waited in vain. She saw no pictures of solitude, of hope, of longing, or of despair. But the very passions themselves were aroused within her soul, swaying it, lashing it, as the waves daily beat upon her splendid body. She trembled, she was choking, and the tears blinded her.For a moment, Mlle. Reisz made me think of Madame Merle in Henry James' THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY (1880), another work in which a young wife comes to question the married state. But Chopin's character turns out not to be malevolent at all, and indeed she becomes a confidante for Edna as she returns to New Orleans for the winter and begins to spread her wings. It is a brilliant trajectory, soaring into the light, especially when her husband goes off to New York for several months, leaving her to her own devices, and her mother-in-law takes the children for an extended stay in the country.Now the photos at the start of this edition no longer seem like period tableaux at all, but symbols of repression, hints of escape, harbingers of disaster. Not imposed on the text, but brilliantly selected to reflect its inner symbolism. For this may be Kate Chopin's most brilliant stroke of all: not merely to show an inner life blossoming within the confines of period convention, but to suggest that the bright arc of that inner life is not the simple ascender that first appeared, but twinned with its dark and inverse reflection. It is not until the final page that you realize what Chopin has made: a study of a psychological condition that is commonplace now, but I can't think of ever being treated in fiction before. Not a period piece at all, but something strikingly modern in a way that transcends the simple "tale of infidelity" promised in the blurb, or even the pioneering feminist tract, but that goes deep inside the soul.Fortunately, knowing nothing about the book other than its title, that closing chapter took me entirely by surprise. But only as I was looking back through the text to find my quotations, did I realize how carefully Chopin had in fact prepared both the complexity of her inner portrait and its eventual resolution. If you have already read the book, look back at the very short early Chapter 6. If you were like me, I bet you read right through it the first time with barely a flutter. But look again now and see how it really captures the entire future course of this magnificent and deceptive novella.
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