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The Awakening - Coggle Diagram

- - - - acceptance of something important to life
      - shifts worldview
        
        transforming mind on personal level
        
        to be awake is to be changed on some spiritual or personal level, almost as if you had just gained consciousness to world or self
        
        to be awake is to be woke
        
        Edna's suicide can be seen as her becoming awake. She has since been through the steps of realization and taking action, however he suicide is when her views have made a complete shift. The drowning symbolizes her total awakening as she would rather sacrifice her own life, then return to one filled with restrictions. Even though death does not have to signify reaching awakening, the personal changes and views that Edna had did not align with society, creating an imbalance between the life Edna wants to lead and the one she is forced to.
- - - - some realization of injustice, particularly in political stance
        
        political phrase used in movements such as BLM and LGBTQ+ movement
        
        Republican party has turned "woke" into an insult of liberalist ideas
        
        Stop WOKE Act, banning the conversations of racism in Florida schools and wide book ban
        
        The definition as "politically correct" has become a meme to the right wing in recent years
        
        Edna can be considered woke, as she continues to question her personal place as a woman in society. Chopin displays Edna as having non-motherly characteristics, which questions her personal identity against social norms in the 19th century. Edna is essentially woke because she is pursuing her own goals, while also trying to support non-gender conformity.
      - Childish Gambino 2016, "Redbone"
      - Wokeism: finding ways to pursue social justice and promote change
- - - - having a realization after a extended period of time
        
        As the present tense of woke, this would be the action of finding injustice within society
        
        becoming alert to self and society
        
        Edna becomes "wake" in a sense as she starts to question her role as a mother, wife and as she begins to challenge the role of male dominance in society. Her worldviews begin to change which is how she finds her own awakening. This begins when Robert says he is leaving for Mexico, triggering Edna's awakening. She realizes she has personal desires for something more than Leonce and her children, provoking the social norms of a women in society.