Every novel that we have read about Feminism all the same concept behind it, woman hates her life and tries to make a change. Also every ending ends with the woman either running away from her life or killing herself. Really how is that helping them in the end? They run from security to be by their selves in a society that does not accept woman into working and supporting themselves. Or they kill themselves, which is the greatest escape I guess?
This is evident in The Awakening and in “A Doll’s House.” Edna tries to escape away from her husband and be with Robert but he ends up saying goodbye; which in turn makes her commit suicide. She just gives up, does not try to do anything to fix her problems. In “A Doll’s House” the woman helps her husband out by sending him away but has to get the money illegally. Then when her husband finds out she decides that she no longer wants to be with him, and ends up just running away.
It is hard to relate that in today’s society since women are now valued and are able to do such things without great consequence. I guess you can compare them to the women of the Middle East. They have very little say like the ones in these stories and it is illegal for them to leave their husbands.
I do not understand why all these stories are all considered classics. Maybe one or two of them but they all have the same basis with little differences.
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I think the fact that every woman in these works either kills herself or runs away is what tells us what we need to know about this society.
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If every woman in a society wants to escape from her life, what does that tell us about that society?
Good.