This paper discusses The Awakening by Kate Chopin. The issue of woman's emancipation from her subjection to man derives from her gender role, but it has been more than just a gender issue. Advocates of the feminist movement the world over and at all times have strongly and persistently called attention to the recognition of all the rights of woman as a human being in all aspects of humanity and in all the ways a man's humanity are recognized and revered. A few of the major aspects are frankly brought out in The Awakening by Kate Chopin in a most unusually courageous and precise manner because the novel was written two centuries ago when women did not have the "right" to object, much less act the way Edna Pontellier does or think and write the way Kate Chopin did.
