The Awakening. XIII ... to ask for water. A youth, a mild-faced Acadian, was drawing water from the cistern, which was nothing more ... Edna could hear the whispering voices of dead men and the ...

Similarly, Edna’s pursuit of the musical arts was criticized as an abandonment of her responsibility as a mother-wife, a pursuit presented as an awakening, or reawakening, of the senses.

Kate Chopin’s “The Awakening” (1899) is a perfect bell of a novel. “The Awakening” tracks the spiritual and emotional deterioration of Edna Pontellier, a Kentucky native living with her Creole husband ...

The Awakening's heroine, Edna Pontellier, challenged society's expectations for women by daring to explore romance outside her marriage and gratification outside of motherhood. 5.

For the journey of Edna Pontellier ... The Awakening: Adapted by Oren Stevens and developed by Ariel Craft from Kate Chopin. Directed by Ariel Craft. Through Aug. 20. Two hours. $20.

It's easy to imagine that more than a century after its publication Kate Chopin's The Awakening might have lost some of its cultural relevancy.

Published in 1899, "The Awakening" follows Edna Pontellier on a journey of self-discovery as she breaks free from an unfulfilled marriage and the equally suffocating life it entails.