Huh... I'm not sure how I feel about this one right now, but I'm a bit concerned with how much I related to Edna. Minus the loveless marriage, because I do love my husband and he loves me, and I'm not really worried I'll find my own "Robert," because I don't need one. I actually didn't really know w...
I don't really know how to describe how I feel about this book, but I have some mixed feelings about it. I like the message it is trying to give but I don't like the way it is executed.
I don't really know how to describe how I feel about this book, but I have some mixed feelings about it. I like the message it is trying to give but I don't like the way it is executed.
I know this is suppose to be a huge book for feminism, but I didn't like it. She just seems so unsatisfied in every situation. I don't know why she became a mother in the first place, and I think committing suicide because you want to have an affair with someone that won't adjust their morals is p...
Read this just to mark it with a cross, and it really does not deserve more these days. I have nothing against the feminist message in here (which, by the way, is not "sleep with whoever you want", but rather "a woman can be a fulfilled personality without marriage and must not be hurried into marry...
There are a few books all authors should read, and a few that all humans should read, whether a reader or writer. The Awakening falls into the second category. I've read this book 4 times now, twice for Literature courses, once for my own entertainment, but the first time was as a requirement to g...
There was a moment, quite early on in the novella, when I was sure Edna's grand passion was going to be Adele Ratignolle, but sadly, it wasn't. Damn. This would have been a far more interesting read if that had been the case. Instead, The Awakening is just another "gilded cage" story, and maybe I've...
If you like to read about idle people set around 1899 or if you'd like to write about them, then this is probably a book for you. Other than that, rather than any masterpiece of proto-feminism, it's a long novella about a woman realising she doesn't love her husband but can't leave him either becaus...
bookshelves: victorian, summer-2014, tbr-busting-2014, published-1899, women, lit-richer, classic, fradio, play-dramatisation, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from August 16 to 21, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dk864Description: Holidaying on ...
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