Clothing: A Symbol In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Title: Clothing: A Symbol In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 827 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Clothing: A Symbol In Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 827 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
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Throughout the novel, as Edna sheds herself of the clothing and possessions that surround her, she becomes more liberated, free, her own woman. The clothing represents the society that confines her and the independence that stripping the clothing gives her enlightens her soul. Kate Chopin uses clothing as a way of conveying the social injustice imposed upon women in the Victorian age in which they were trapped.