Triumph over tragedy. Speaks of Kate Chopin's "The avakening"

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When we think of a tragedy, instantaneously the classic Shakespearean tragedy Romeo and Juliet springs into our mind. Thoughts of lost love and torments abound. The most human of emotions, sorrow, overwhelms us. We shudder, a chill creeps up our spine. We agonize over the tragedy, and the tragic figure. We lose sight of reality, and stumble headlong into the story. Enthralled by the suspense, captured by the Irony that, 'we know' what plight lies ahead for the characters. We become enraptured by tragedies. We feel the pain, the suffering and the helplessness of the characters as the tragedy unwinds. However powerful a story Kate Chopins' The Awakening may be, it is by no means a tragedy. The ...

... the fields of flowers as carefree as a child. All of these desires are being fulfilled at her own will and desire. She wants to perish so that she may be set free. Death in this case is not tragic because there was total free will involved. Suicide does not denote tragedy; It suggest total control and desire to leave the present world. This is not a characteristic of a tragedy. Rather it is serene and beautiful, not the type of conclusion commonly associated with a tragedy. The Awakening is a powerful work of literature. It highlights the power of desire, and the beauty of freedom. The Awakening, does not, however, posses the proper elements

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