symbolaw Use of Symbols and Symbolism in The Awakening Essay -- Chopi

Use of Symbolism in Chopins The Awakening The Awakening is a novel full of symbolism within each narrative fragment there is often a central and powerful symbol that serves to fit meaning to the text and to underline round subtle point Chopin is making. fellow feeling the meaning of these symbols is vital to a full appreciation of the story. This essay lists some of the major symbols with explanations of their importance. Art becomes a symbol of both freedom and failure. It is by dint of the process of trying to become an artist that Edna reaches the highest point of her awakening. Edna sees art as a way of self-expression an... ...urely caged when she first appears. . . she is confined in what is not lone(prenominal) literally a womans sphere but, symbolically speaking, the Womans House. . . every object and catch here has not only a literal domestic function and a dreamlike symbolic radiance but a distinctively womanish symbolic significance (47).