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The Awakening Year 1980 Essay The passionate convictions, set forth by each individual, albeit daily, semi annually, or throughout a lifetime, are the driving forces of world progress. In attaining these advancements, responsibilities and socially accepted paradigms sometimes must be set aside. One such plight is that of Edna Pontellier, protagonist of Chopin's The Awakening, whose struggle with an "outward life which conforms [and an] inward life which questions" causes her to reject that which is morally acceptable. It is through this conflict between private passions and responsibilities that Edna discovers her identity and realizes her emotional desires. Edna faces a conflict between that which society deems as socially improper and her will to do as she pleases. She continually struggles with the belief that "living with self-awareness, possessed and controlled only by one's own soul, offers an existence far richer than a life lived according to the restricting 'illusions' that are...

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