Hecks Yahh!

Hecks Yahh!

Women’s Literature
Fall 2011
The Awakening Final Assignment
Option B
Tea Ilic

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” Said by -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, I completely agree with this quote, today’s society is complicated enough with people dying of hunger, diseases, murders, name it and you can find it on planet Earth. I believe that if Edna were to swim ashore in today’s society she wouldn’t be looked upon as some insane person. It would just be another sad story told, she would and wouldn’t fit in. She’s just like every other person trying to have a life worth living, except she actually did something for herself, like most people wont because they’re scared to be judged and don’t have enough courage to make something better for themselves because in my eye’s people settle too quickly.
In a way I believe she would fit in because in today’s society you can find anything from a crazy professor-selling crack to the president-smoking weed. Not much shocks me in today’s society. That’s why I believe that Edna could certainly fit in with our society; she really wouldn’t be looked upon badly and even compared to most of the people. I can completely understand Edna, I don’t feel like she was ever ready to have a family with Leonce, I feel as though she was pressured by her surroundings to be the perfect house wife, to have her family be more important than herself and to live the little cozy life cleaning and cooking, but I don’t think that’s what she ever wanted to do in her life, and that’s why it was so hard to understand why she would do some things like ignore her children and not being very motherly. I like Edna’s personality because it was risky she wasn’t afraid of what other people thought I believe that she wouldn’t have a problem fitting in today’s society like I’ve mentioned already, because there’s many women today that have been divorced multiple times and have many...