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The Awakening Title Exploration - Coggle Diagram
The Awakening
Title Exploration
Awake
stop sleeping; wake from sleep; not asleep
Sleep could be representative of how she was living her life.
"Awake" - Dictionary
Wake
emerge or cause to emerge from a state of sleep; stop sleeping
"A state of sleep" could represent her complacency and boredom.
hold a vigil beside (someone who has died)
Edna ends up dying, though she may not have had a wake if they did not find her body.
the track or course left behind something moving through water
People in the water would leave a wake.
The Awakening
could mean "creating a wake"
"Wake" - Merriam-Webster
Edna slowly "awakens" throughout the book
Edna's life for most of the book = sleep
Woke
actively attentive/alert to injustice/inequality/facts/issues in society
This book is "woke" because of its status as a landmark feminist commentary on gender roles.
I don't think this was the intended meaning, because "woke" used ike this is pretty new, but it's an interesting connection.
awareness
"Woke" - Merriam-Webster
The Awakening
- Britannica
