The Awakening

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Across
  1. 2. The man with whom Edna has an affair
  2. 4. “There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the ___.”
  3. 6. “She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.”
  4. 7. Typically, world-magnitude tragedies are coded as
  5. 10. Edna's final decision at the end of the novel
  6. 13. The coastal location where much of the story takes place
  7. 15. Leonce first points this out about Edna when we meet him at the start of The Awakening
  8. 16. First wrote of the DC in his text The Souls of Black Folk
  9. 18. Typically, domestic tragedies are coded as
  10. 19. Painted Monk by the Sea
  11. 20. The solo pursuit of this solo activity is one of the novel’s main themes
  12. 22. “The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to ___ for a spell in abysses of solitude.”
  13. 25. A woman’s traditional role in society
  14. 27. “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.”
  15. 29. A major theme of the novel, in which Edna comes to understand and define herself
  16. 30. Internal conflict experienced by the marginalized forced to be two seemingly incomplete halves of one body
Down
  1. 1. World-affecting quality, synonym for seriousness
  2. 3. Edna's spouse in the novel
  3. 5. Emergence of this social class in 20th century America is central to interpretation of the novel
  4. 8. “the act of becoming aware of something”
  5. 9. The novel’s characters participate in a ___ summer community
  6. 11. Painted Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (which was stolen)
  7. 12. The relationship between texts, especially literary ones
  8. 13. Painted the Raft of Medusa
  9. 14. “Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call ___.”
  10. 17. A character who encourages and supports Edna's pursuit of independence and self-discovery
  11. 21. The protagonist of The Awakening
  12. 23. A symbol in the novel that represents Edna's journey towards self-discovery and liberation
  13. 24. Edna’s age
  14. 26. Symbolically, Leonce wears these at the beginning of The Awakening
  15. 28. The novel begins with this type of imagery
  16. 31. Ancient Greek lyrical poet