The awakening: Spatial Structure by Lucía Fernández
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Silvia Lucía del V. Fernández
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THE AWAKENING’S SPATIAL STRUCTURE
THEME: Discontent and revolt of a woman who refuses to pay the price that matrimony and motherhood demand.
Part 1
CH.1- Sunday summer XIX century. Grand Isle (fifty miles from New Orleans
- Edna is swimming.
- Edna is burnt beyond recognition:
- unladylike, immaturity.
- Edna has broken the social code
- Edna & Robert talk lightly about in consequence they are starting an innocent intimacy.
- Mr. Pontellier leaves to catch the steamer to
New Orleans - Leoncé gives Edna things so that Mr. Pontellier is said to be an excellent husband
- Edna is changing a lot.
- Edna cries. Her place in the universe.
CH.5-6 – Edna has not experienced passion, real or imagined.
- Edna has not discussed it nor joked lightly heartedly with anyone about it.
- Up to this moment, she hasn’t spent sleepless nights because of consuming flames. ( 1002)
- Chopin is preparing us for the change that is about to occur. She began to awaken.
- Chopin speaks of the sea, the sea waves & wonders what Edna feels as she tries to fathom the mysterious Creole.
- Nature: she starts to become aware of the caressing quality of the sea & the embrace of her solitude ( 1005- author intrusive; 1007- 1008- The meadow)
- Edna herself is allowing to become part of an unconscious fusion with the sea. Seductive powers of the sea.
- Edna succumbs to the strength of the sea as it speaks to her soul, to her body. Edna is about to be awaked to a new and fragile sexuality.
2- It will open new depths for her.
Part 2
CH.4-8- Discovery her place in the universe. Individual self-realization. C
- She has a small private life. she has whole dimensions of herself that she has not shared even with Leonce N
- She senses this summer will change the course of his life.
- Adele’s beauty fascinates her. T
- She has allowed to be friendly with Robert.
- She misses Robert. ( 1018 ). R
- The ungovernable dread hung about her when in the water.
- Feeling or exaltation. ( 1018). O
- She wanted to swim far out where no woman had swam before.
- Death and terror, foreshadows (1019). L
- Feelings and emotions have swept through her to night.
- Passion felt for the first time (1024)
- She can actually swim. This gives her a sense of freedom.
- New peace as she is left alone in her hammock (1021)
- She does not accept Leonce to talk her in that way. (1022)
CH.12-Chemiere Caminada. Edna discovers her body.
- Foreshadowing , half awakened senses of something in………..
- She frees her soul of responsibilities. Robert asks her to go to Grand Terre the next day.
C
- She saw for the first time, the fine form quality and texture of her flesh. N
- How many years have I sleep? (1028). T
- She is falling in love with her fresh sense and freedom, in love with the sense of adventure.
- She has discovered in life and in herself in love with Robert. R
O
CH-15- Second banquet . Loss of control.
- She’s infatuated and going through a conscious emotional adultery.
- Robert’s in love.
- She doesn’t believe this is true.
- Robert goes to
Mexico - Solitude because of love’s absence.
- Adele cautions Edna not to exposed her emotions ( Robert’s departure)
- Edna’s heroism. She is able to risk everything. Robert will not.
- Edna sees her closest kingship with the sea, the soothing company of her solitude(10359.
- She is discovering her essence, a process.
- She could…….use her children’s…..surrogate for her own…….
Ch 16
ü She knows her reality
ü Solitude love’s absence
ü Robert has departed
ü Edna makes Robert a topic of conversation
ü The cat of eating as a link with sth that has happened.
Ch 17 1/2
ü Introduction to the new place
ü Edna throws the ring
ü Rejects contention
Ch17 2/2
ü Dinner alone
ü Inner turmoil.
ü External turmoil
ü Ring loss of control= Achievement
Ch 18-22
ü Discovery instincts emerge
ü New place= Rebllion
ü Edna doesn’t pay attention to the house
ü She is led by her instincts
ü She paints and visits Mdme. Ratignole
Ch23
ü 1st banquet
ü Dr Mandelet realizes Edna ids in love.
ü Radiant exterior
ü Control because she keeps all the threats in movement
Ch 24 ½
ü External Rebellion Edna quarrels with her father
ü Children with Leonce´s parents
ü Another kind of control over Robert
Ch24 2/2
ü Supper alone
ü Discovers her home
ü Control (1061)
ü Like the Chêniere
Ch25-9
ü Sexual attraction
ü Arobin kisses her
ü CONTROL
ü Arobin sees she has changed= she is a changed woman
ü Edna prepares everything for a Coup de Êtat against patriarchy
Ch 30
ü 2nd Banquet
ü New people
ü Farewell
ü Immediate past
ü Control
Ch31 ½
ü Solitude
ü Acceptance
ü Arobin
ü Sex symbol
ü Casanova’s Presence
ü Control
ü Doer of things
Pigeon’s house
Ch 31 2/2
ü Solitude rejection
ü Arobin
ü Control
Ch32
ü Home Children Reality
ü Family her reality up and down /gain and loss
Ch33
ü Edna goes to mademoiselle Reitz
ü love returnsArobins
ü Photo
ü Chance= No control
Ch 34
ü Dinner
ü Robert
ü Arobin
ü Chance= no control
Ch35
ü Hope Destroyed(Robert not met)
ü Arobin
ü No control
Ch36
ü Café Robert
ü Discovery
ü Mde Ratignole
ü Chance= no control
Ch 37
ü Childbirth
ü children
ü Dr Mandelete
ü Reality Family
Ch38
ü Hope destroyed
ü (1095) knock at the door =chance
Ch39
ü Solitude
ü Ultimate
ü Revelation
ü Loss of control
ü Returns to Grand Isle
ü Circular plot
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