The Awakening by Kate Chopin Flashcards
(15 cards)
Edna belongs to Edna
“She had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.”
Sea = siren
“The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing… inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude.”
Edna becomes unfake
“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment.”
Edna wants to be the first woman on the moon
“She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.”
Edna doesn’t need nuclear family
“The house, the children, were a part of her life. But they need not have thought that they could possess her, body and soul.”
Edna is detached
“There was no one thing in the world that she desired.”
Edna wants sea
“Her arms as they went out… reached out to the sea in welcome.”
Edna is waking up
“A certain light was beginning to dawn dimly within her,—the light which, showing the way, forbids it.”
Edna the newborn
“She felt like some new-born creature, opening its eyes in a familiar world that it had never known.”
Edna will not give up herself
“I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn’t give myself.”
Pigeonhouse
“The pigeon-house pleased her. It at once assumed the intimate character of a home, while she herself invested it with a charm which it reflected back upon her.”
Sleeping beauty
“You have slept precisely one hundred years.”
Edna’s harem
“To-day it is Arobin; to-morrow it will be someone else.”
Edna’s energy
“Some people are born with a vital and responsive energy. It not only enables them to keep abreast of the times; it actually gives them the prophetic perception of the coming changes.”
Birds need strong wings
“The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings.”
