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work that expressed a complex relation between the arts. Emily Toth believed that TheAwakening was feminist criticism in the form of novel, while Edna was the embodimentof feminist criticism. Form the perspective of feminist criticism, Elaine Showalter saidthat The Awakening was a revolutionary book: both a summary of traditional literatureand a marked departure from the tradition. Another study direction of The Awakening iscalled “New historicism methodology”, which studies this novel from the perspective ofhistory, viewing an era’s literature as a special product of a period’s ideological concepts,values, beliefs, and events. Patrivia S. Yaeger deconstructed the novel in “‘A Language Nobody Understood’: Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening” and suggested thatEdna’s problem was entirely due to her lack of language and was subjected to be merelythe victim of a plot others had arranged for her. Paula A. Treichler also studied thelinguistic features of the novel, arguing that the language of the novel left readers with asense of confusion. From the latter half of the twentieth century on, The Awakening hasbeen praised as a classic of feminist literary work, clearly demonstrating that the public’simage of women is of a gradually revealing self constrained by traditional stereotypes.Today, people continue to offer varying theoretical methods to discuss the significance ofthe novel and its status in international literature. These studies continue primarily fromperspectives of gender and focus on the problem of women themselves.According to its research status at home and abroad, it can be seen that there is noserious academic study of The Awakening from the perspective of the aesthetics ofabsurdity. This essay hopes to fill that gap in the literature.
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Chapter Three The Absurdity in The Awakening.....15
3.1 The Absurdity in Existing Environment of Edna........15
3.1.1The Settled Social Role in Patriarchal Society....15
3.1.2The Cold Violence in Her Family....17
3.1.3The Weakness And Compromise in Her Homogeneous Group........19
3.2 The Absurdity of Resistance Actions of Edna.............22
3.3 The Absurdity in Tragic Fate of Edna.....27
Chapter Four The Aesthetics of Absurdity in The Awakening........34
4.1 The Belief Contrary to Tradition Concept.........34
4.2 The Spirit with Positive Vitality....34
4.3 The Women Force to Promote Social Progress...........36
Chapter Five The Significance of The Aesthetic Absurdity in TheAwakening...........39
5.1 Reflecting Absurd Reality Through The Aesthetics of absurdity in TheAwakening......38
5.2 Indicating Positive Meaning Through The Aesthetics of absurdity in TheAwakening.....39

Chapter Five The Significance of TheAesthetics of Absurdity in The Awakening

5.1 Reflecting Absurd Reality Through theAesthetics of Absurdity in The Awakening
With continuous development of human material civilization, the level ofenlightenment about people’s spiritual civilization becomes higher. It stimulates women’sliberation pioneers to put forward female human rights as equal to male human rightsafter the western bourgeois enlightenment thinkers challenged the traditional divine rightof kings and feudal regimes. The Awakening is a representative work under the influenceof this non-traditional thought.The Awakening was brought to public attention soon after the bo