The Awakening essays

The Awakening essays In the novels The Awakening,Huckleberry Finn and The Life of Fredrick Douglass,the search for freedom and authenticity is reflected through characters like Huck, Edna , Jim and Fredrick Douglass .All of these characters have are the rebellions to their societies' demands and they are desperate to seek freedom from the burdens of their cultural demands . There are certain similarities between the personalities of Huck and Edna .Edna is struggling to find her "real place " in her socirty . She is oppressed and dealing with sexism . A part of her conscious is aware of this inequality and it stings her soul abusively . An indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in the same familiar part of her conscious filled her whole being with a vague anguish . It was like a shadow ,like a mist passing across her soul's summer day . It was strange and unfamiliar ;it was a mood . Page 8 (para 2) She feels repressed and a minority in her society .These feelings sounds like the feelings of being useless and unworthy and their intensity is revealed as feelings of chill in summer time. In the same manner , Huck also feels repressed from the idea of racism and slavery. Just like Edna being a rebel to her society, Huck is in the same boat .His feelings are strong against the inequality with blacks which is revealed when he accompanies Jim in his journey to freedom. He is well aware of his antagonistic behavior but his strong feeling, just as with Edna are hard to ignore ."All right then, I'll go to hell." This statement that he makes several times in the novel is the strongest evidence of his muscular feelings towards freedom . Both Edna and Huck are misfits in their societies and even a threa...