Katherine

Team Robert. 👀

[Katherine @_kadams14]

@nathalieabello1 #falzawake212 goodnight

[Nathalie Abello @nathalieabello1]

Edna in the water 🌊🌊 #rip #falzawake212

[Bridget @Bridget00904387]

#falzawake212 marriage is portrayed as a trap and a false promise of happiness for women. The marriages within the novel depict wives who must subvert their identities and desires in favor of their husbands.

[Katherine @_kadams14]

@ariellerab @JDRyan2004 #falzawake facts Arielle

[Katherine @_kadams14]

@Bridget00904387 #falzawake212 which is just an ironic testament to her bravery, since it was harder for a woman to express these sexual desires in her time and easier for a man (possibly shows how much respect Robert actually did have for her bc he didn’t want to ruin her reputation)

[Katherine @_kadams14]

@Bridget00904387 @nathalieabello1 #falzawake212 that’s a good question, I think you can definitely see it as both, and I think how you see it that way says a lot about the message of the story; she is both victorious in that she broke through intense societal pressure but defeated in that it brings her to suicide

[Katherine @_kadams14]

@ariellerab #falzawake212 I disagree. I think she’s heroic in the way that she was able to toss away nearly every societal standard that was pressured upon her her whole life. In our time it’s easy to imagine doing this, but at that time it was so shocking it got the book banned.

[Bridget @Bridget00904387]

#falzawake212 with Edna’s newfound independence came solitude. After abandoning her old lifestyle she was met with resistance from her husband and was shamed by societal standards. Even Robert leaves her, emphasizing the fact that Edna is alone in her awakening.

[Katherine @_kadams14]

@mikeleanza1 @nathalieabello1 #falzawake212 even so, in the end she wasn’t so strong; her suicide can be representative of both her strength and her weakness (how eventually she began to feel immensely shameful for how freely she was acting, so shameful in fact that she needed to escape that pain in this way)

[Katherine @_kadams14]

@JDRyan2004 #falzawake water represents the societal pressures she flounders under; when Robert teaches her to swim, he is also metaphorically helping her learn to survive in the ocean of oppression, and when she drowns in the water it represents her succumbing to that pressure again

[John Ryan @JDRyan2004]

#falzawake212 Edna's "indescribable oppression" isn't so indescribable. She clearly desires freedom, and more specifically, separation from the expectation of women's role in society.