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(Eisenberg). Later she goes on to list what women have been denied and how they have

been treated. Elizabeth Cady Stanton started the Women s Rights Movement giving many

women a chance to be free from any sort of isolation.

In a sense, woman were isolated from doing what they wanted to do. In the novel

The Awakening, there is a woman named Edna who is vacationing on the Grand Isle with

her husband and two children. She is relatively an independent person, but due to the time

period and the environment she is in, she has to be controlled. Most of the women on the

island are women who obey their husbands and take care of their children, as all wives are

expected to do. In the novel, there are many instances where Edna does not listen to her

husband and many times when her kids are away she does not worry about them. Out of

site, out of mind, describes how Edna feels about her kids when they are away. She is not

like the Creoles on the island. Edna wants to be her own person. She has affairs with

different men and declares that she belongs to herself and that she can give herself to

whom she pleases. As the story goes on, her independence increases, but she really never

reaches complete independence and commits suicide. Edna wanted to have what Elizabeth

Cady Stanton and many other women fought for: independance.

For many women, independence was a big part of who they are. Back in 1848, it

only took a few determined women to stand up for their independence which would later

change the way women were treated. These women who made these changes happen were

sick of being treated as property, possessions, and slaves. When a woman took a husband,

she lost what limited freedom she might have had as a single adult (Ruthsdotter). The

basic job of a woman was to get married, tend to the house, and raise a family. The

woman has very limited time to herself or a chance to do what she wants to do.

Unlike Edna, a woman was expected to care more for her family than herself. She

was to tend to them and see to it that she make them happy. Edna was a woman who

sought for her independence. She wanted to be able to live her life on her own and to

make her own decisions. Marriage was arranged by fathers of daughters, as in The Taming

of the Shrew, and once they were married the woman had no freedom. Katherine was

tamed by her appointed husband in the end of the novel. Whenever he called for her, she