We Are Humans

Some situations don’t have easy solutions. That is an everyday thing in life. Problems are problems because they don’t have an easy solution. Bu it is worst when we are dealing with human beings. Sometimes oppressions can get so out of hand, that it takes an extreme measure to make people notice the injustices being done.

This has been seen all through history and can be represented in The Awakening, by Kate Chopin. Edna is living in a world that suffocates her. She was born in the wrong period because her personality clashes with society’s views of her era. If we were to look back at women’s situation back then we would all say that it was an abomination. They had no say, no voice; they were just leaving souls taking care of the house and husband. As dark as it may sound, technically it was like that. It seems dreadful, but for the majority it wasn’t. They were accustomed to the life they lead. Their obligations ended up being something they enjoyed, and they lived life as in nothing happened. But Edna was different. She knew something was wrong, but she was alone and had to take it up herself. She tried isolating herself, quitting her obligations, rebelling against women most sacred person, -the husband- but all those efforts were in vain. They had no effect on her because she still felt that the world she lived in was not okay. And thus the extremes measures came. She swam so far out into freedom that she ended up killing herself. Suicide was the only way of escaping her reality, nothing else worked. An extreme solution, but the only one that suited her. The oppression was so embedded in people’s mind that nothing else worked.

Edna is a symbol of fight. She represents the people that died trying for a good cause. She had to taka it to extreme but she was able to finally liberate herself from the chains of society, holding her back and making her something she is not. Changes were not seen, immediately after her death, actually nothing happened: the book ended like that. But that it the way that most revolutions happen. People realize about the harshness of situations when tragedy strikes. We are humans and that is how we learn.