The Awakening

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