Analysis Of Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening'

Enthusiastically, I waved at my neighbor each morning as I walk out the door to start my journey as an elementary school student. Madeline was her name, though I was restricted from calling her by her first name because I was in a school building and now, I was her student. Unlike any student in the building, my second-grade teacher was my neighbor. This only augmented my excitement as I was beginning to unlock a world that will feed my knowledge and educated me. I always looked up to Walt Disney, I described him as a genius since he held the ability to create characters that jump onto a motion picture or a book that one can read and create endless imaginations. I was and still am a Disney child, as I grew up on the books and movies, enthralled

The world knows my culture as “Gypsy” which is a slang term incorrectly used to describe my culture; the correct term is Roma. I thought back to a time, I took a sojourn to Macedonia, where I was able to see true origin of my culture that was not intertwined with American culture. In the gypsy culture, I determined that Women are expected to follow the conventions of society just as Edna Pontellier, from the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin. After reading this novel in my high school English class, I felt inspired because of Edna, a women trying to break the conventions of the Creole society and the standards of women in that era. Society expectations are to devote all time to creating a family and taking care of the house and kids. This was also an expectation in my culture. I no longer become discouraged as I was ready to break these standards and start a new expectation for women in my culture. I was motivated to become a better writer and regain my

I wanted to break away from the formula. I was assigned a paper and a presentation on the Shakespearean play “Macbeth”. This assignment allowed me to explore the world on Shakespeare and create a presentation on the written assignment. As Walt Disney used storybook characters and made world famous amusement parks that leave people with happiness, I wanted to give my audiences, which were my classmates, the same sense of amazement. For my presentation, I created a life-size Barbie box and dressed a young high school student in a dress to impersonate the character Barbie, with a chic dress and golden locks that little girls across the world idolize. I took scissors and chopped the hair off Barbie and changed her out of a glamours dress into a casual menswear; a formal button down and black pants to symbolize Lady Macbeth emasculating Macbeth in front of the audience