Author(s)

Qing Cheng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Guangxi Minzu University, Nanning, 530000, China

Corresponding Author

Qing Cheng

ABSTRACT

The significance of nature in The Awakening has been widely acknowledged by numerous researchers, the portrayal of nature in The Awakening can not only be seen as the writing feature of Naturalism, but also as Chopin's feminist ideology. Numerous researchers were fascinated by Chopin's feminine mystique, for instance, Amanda Kane Rooks attempted to decipher female sexuality and maternal archetypes in The Awakening, and Kathleen M Streater targeted on how the other female character in The Awakening, Adele Ratignolle, influences Edna's transformation. Other researchers like Joyce Dyer and Suzanne W. Jones adopted the naturalistic approach, examining the inescapable force of nature in The Awakening. By focusing on three distinct categories of natural imagery, the parrot, water-oak and violet, meadow and moonlight, this paper on one hand discusses the unique characteristics and perspectives of the transformation of Edna's psycho world, and on the other hand illustrates the power of nature in naturalistic works, as both Edna's past life and reborn are closely dependent on her interaction with the external natural world.

KEYWORDS

American Naturalism, Kate Chopin, The Awakening

CITE THIS PAPER

Qing Cheng, Symbolic Nature in Kate Chopin's The Awakening. Lecture Notes on Language and Literature (2023) Vol. 6: 60-63. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/langl.2023.061710.

REFERENCES

[1] Chopin, Kate. Chopin's The Awakening. Edited by Sheri Metzger, Hungry Minds, Inc., 2001. 
[2] Dyer, Joyce. "Symbolism and Imagery in The Awakening." Approaches to Teaching Chopin's The Awakening, edited by Bernard Koloski, Modern Language Association of America, 1988, pp. 126–131.

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