Monday, November 1, 2010
A Review on The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Awakening by Kate Chopin is, truly, a beautiful work. It captures the essence in reviving the hearts and souls of women, young or old. In a sense, the lines in Chopin's timeless treasury have a way of securing female insecurity and confusion of one's self. With this, we can all connect as women of the world. Within The Awakening, we encounter the trials of love, desire, society, family, and, majorly, the miracle of discovery in a woman's life! Dominantly, us women first consider what the world expects of us, not what we want, and overlook how important it is to look deep within ourselves and question the life we really have going on. The Awakening gives us a chance to break away from the stresses and chaos of everyday life, and release ourselves into a life of relating from one woman to the other. We also see the true nature of a woman, and the power that she has-that we all have individually as a female. The author envelopes her readers in the grace of feminist reasoning and understanding. Going through the book, we come through a rebirth of sense, purpose, and overall perspective on the persona(s) we portray given the various aspects in our life. What, then, will we discover this time around?
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this sounds pretty good, how did you come across this book? random selection?
ReplyDeleteThis book delivers everything you'd hope for from the very beginning. It is a powerful and beautiful novella for women. What strikes me mostly is Chopin's minimalism. She writes so powerfully and deeply with the minimum number of words.
ReplyDeleteI guess that's why the title is: "The Awakening" :D At least the author fulfills the description quite beautifully (from what I heard from you) and has lived up to the name.
ReplyDeleteI especially liked this from your review...
"In a sense, the lines in Chopin's timeless treasury have a way of securing female insecurity and confusion of one's self."
How do you secure a female's insecurity? Rather, how do you secure someone who is insecure; especially a female (or, I should have said, "Godforbid, a female"..lol)?
It's interesting how you place an oxymoron into your review because that tid-bit has given it a nice touch. Also, you can tell when an audience is paying attention when he/she catches those juicy additions :D
Don't you agree?
As to how I came across this book, I DID consider the title and "The Awakening" sounded beautiful and really like it would be something meaningful, so I crossed my fingers, had my mom buy it and hoped for the best read to start with.
ReplyDeleteAnd, oh yes, I do agree Mrs. Griffin. That's a true ideal in her book.
I do agree with you too as well, Alana! You make very good points. Great job at recognizing the literary devices!