Edna’s Self-Pursuit of Absurdity in The Awakening
Abstract
The Awakening is a short but first class novel of the late nineteenth century written by Kate Chopin. It is about Edna’s gradual awakening and her subsequent seeking of artistic development and sexual fulfillment outside marriage. Based on the theories of existentialism, this paper tries to analyze Edna’s self-pursuit and her subsequent life journey from the absurdity of Edna’s Marriage, Edna’s alienation to her freedom of choice.References
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