The Awakening

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Across
  1. 1. Emergence of this social class in 20th century America is central to interpretation of the novel
  2. 3. “The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to ___ for a spell in abysses of solitude.”
  3. 6. Literary device wherein the poet of “Lady Lazarus” addresses God and Lucifer
  4. 8. First wrote of the DC in his text The Souls of Black Folk
  5. 11. Internal conflict experienced by the marginalized forced to be two seemingly incomplete halves of one body
  6. 13. Symbolically, Leonce wears these at the beginning of The Awakening
  7. 15. World-affecting quality, synonym for seriousness
  8. 17. The novel begins with this type of imagery
  9. 18. “There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the ___.”
  10. 21. A woman’s traditional role in society
  11. 22. The relationship between texts, especially literary ones
  12. 24. The protagonist of The Awakening
  13. 25. Typically, world-magnitude tragedies are coded as
  14. 26. Ancient Greek lyrical poet
  15. 27. “Lady Lazarus” ends with an allusion to the
  16. 28. Edna: Earth, Leonce:___
  17. 30. Edna:Earth, Robert:___
  18. 31. The novel’s characters participate in a ___ summer community
  19. 33. Painted Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (which was stolen)
  20. 34. Typically, domestic tragedies are coded as
  21. 35. Edna’s age
  22. 37. “The bird that would soar above the level plain of ___ and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.”
Down
  1. 2. Leonce first points this out about Edna when we meet him at the start of The Awakening
  2. 4. Painted the Raft of Medusa
  3. 5. Painted Monk by the Sea
  4. 7. A major theme of the novel, in which Edna comes to understand and define herself
  5. 9. Edna's final decision at the end of the novel
  6. 10. “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat ___ like air.”
  7. 12. Poet who wrote “Lady Lazarus”
  8. 14. The man with whom Edna has an affair
  9. 15. The coastal location where much of the story takes place
  10. 16. Is Edna’s suicide an inherently selfish act, a liberating one, or something else (perhaps something beyond the ___) entirely?
  11. 19. “Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call ___.”
  12. 20. Edna's spouse in the novel
  13. 23. “the act of becoming aware of something”
  14. 28. A symbol in the novel that represents Edna's journey towards self-discovery and liberation
  15. 29. The solo pursuit of this solo activity is one of the novel’s main themes
  16. 32. A character who encourages and supports Edna's pursuit of independence and self-discovery
  17. 36. “She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”