positive and negative effect on one’s life. Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” shows the general population how making decisions without thinking rationally. Edna Pontellier made decisions that were both beneficial and harmful to herself and her family. She began to experience an emotion she has never been able to acquire and also caused her to become physically trapped in a situation that makes her battle between her dignity and image in society. Edna Pontellier returns back to her home with an intimate
In America, the 1890s were a decade of tension and social change. A central theme in Kate Chopin’s fiction was the independence of women. In Louisiana, most women were their husband’s property. The codes of Napoleon were still governing the matrimonial contract. Since Louisiana was a Catholic state, divorce was rare and scandalous. In any case, Edna Pontellier of Chopin had no legal rights for divorce, even though Léonce undoubtedly did. When Chopin gave life to a hero that tested freedom’s limits
develops with the passing of time and events. Other modern psychologists have elaborated on Freud, including the psychologists Erik Erikson and Karen Horney. Their thoughts on the personality development of people relate directly to Kate Chopin’s book, The Awakening. In this book, the theories discussed by Freud and his successors are shown explicitly and implicitly. 	Obviously, Sigmund Freud’s work in the field of personality development was by far the most prolific and controversial. The father