觉醒

​ The work written by American writer Kate Chopin in 1899, "Awakening," was once banned and was only lifted five to six years later, considered an early feminist work. Although more than a hundred years have passed, reading Awakening today, I am still amazed by Kate Chopin's courage in proposing the idea of "never sacrificing oneself for children or anyone else" in Awakening. Today, a mother who dares to make this sound will still be seen as rebellious by society and her parents. As an individual, I understand Edna in Awakening. As a mother, I am willing to sacrifice for myself in certain situations, but I do not deny Edna's choice. Sacrifice, seemingly painful. In some situations, it is the happiness of the victim. Sacrifice is an optional individual right that can only come from the true will of the victim, without the need to measure the individual's sacrifice based on status or inferiority. I believe that in the eyes of many male readers, Edna portrayed by Kate Chopin is a person who can easily find smoking patterns. Edna, who lives in high society, seems to have all the beautiful things she can have: beauty, talent, childhood, indulging her husband, admiring her, loving her companions, and no need to worry about living a luxurious life. Not only in the ninth century, the vast majority of modern society was pursuing what she had. However, this greedy woman was so ashamed that she was even dissatisfied and used a killing method to get rid of everything she had. This is Edna with male eyes. They don't understand that having a sense of satisfaction on the surface is what causes unbearable pain to the inner emptiness. They will also not understand that it is precisely because of their desire for spiritual comfort beyond superficial wealth and happy life that they no longer have mediocre bodies, but have their own souls. If Edna is a busy person who struggles to eat three meals a day, she will have no time to express her needs for the spiritual world. If she is as content as others to follow the baton of her husband and children, to be content with her companions, and to flirt with men, she will be happy. How mediocre this happiness is! Just like a person, no matter how many hardships they have to go through and how much sweat they sweat in order to survive, they don't want to hum happily in the circle like pigs. So Edna, who was different from her companions, suffered pain and anxiety, but pitied them for being completely oblivious to mundane life. She was happy to leave her husband's luxurious house and move into her own world. In an era where women are no longer dependent on men, Edna style extramarital affairs are no longer explosive news, but emotional tragedies will continue to unfold. The emotions that Edna needs will be difficult to satisfy in any era, because in emotions, men are always the lower half of the animal, women are the upper half of the animal, and the nature shield set by the creator for men is eternal. Robert truly loved Edna, but his love was not as eternal as Edna had hoped. Although Edna was waiting for Robert, she couldn't resist the desire of her body and the sexual activity of another male, and her spiritual world needed Robert to fill. Robert's spiritual world can reject Edna regardless of whether he engages in sexual behavior with others. Edna realized that the void could not be changed by this man or other men, so she chose to sink into the sea. Edna was a representative of the early self-awareness of sexuality, but her choice of death proved that her awakening was incomplete and incomplete. Edna has never truly detached herself from her dependence on a patriarchal society. Leaving her husband is nothing but bravely transitioning from relying on one man to expecting another. Death is not Edna's tragedy. She silently declared that she would not sacrifice herself for anyone, but she never truly allowed herself to be above anyone.