Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Awaken to the Awakening
Okay so in class i feel like everyone believes that Edna intentionally committed suicide, but i just don't see how that can be. My interpretation of the end was that Edna went out to the beach just like every other time, because this is where she felt most free. I do however believe that this particular time Edna goes to the beach is more 'freeing' than the others. This could be due to the fact that she strips naked. Anyways, as Edna is walking down to the beach Chopin keeps on saying how nothing was really on her mind. No problems or worries that she had before were existent, she was simply just enjoying the freeing experience. As she proceeds into the water, i felt as if she became a part of the ocean- she was just going with the flow. As she goes deeper, i think she comes to the realization that she will not make it back but instead of freaking out (like most would) she accepts what is happening and lets the ocean over take her. I do not believe this was Edna's decision, it was all natures. Nature knew that Edna did not belong in that society and that there was nothing she could do about it, being in the ocean is where she belonged, and the ocean decided to take fate into its own hands.
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Case, I can directly relate what you are talking about to something we learned in psychology. There is a constant debate in the psychology world of whether a specific factor in life is considered nature - we are born with it- or nurture- it is created within in by our social and culture influences. I understand what you are saying in that nature took over but I would also argue that nurture had a large impact in not only her decision to stay calm and allow nature to take over, but also in the reasoning as to why she is so different compared to society. Firstly, she was not raised in creole culture. Therefore her ‘nurture’ aspect of her early years were not of creole society in which she was supposed to fit into later on in her married years. However the nature of her being, the way she was born, all in all had the most powerful affect in her death in that it was the way she was born and who she is (her nature) that she began with and also ended with in that the literal aspect of nature took over in ending her life.
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