日本の食事療法の利点の突破口 Slidesgo template // 2021

Element of
Belief System

By: Ayu, Aimuni, Dinie and Najwa (TESL 1)

日本の食事療法の利点の突破口 Slidesgo template // 2021

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Every Woman is
Individuality
01 a Mother- 02 and Freedom
Woman

Condoning CONCLUSION
03 Adultery 04 S
 Belief system of every woman is a
mother-woman
Edna Pontellier’s belief Adele Ratignolle’s and Mademoiselle Reisz’s
● She upset many nineteenth century
expectations for women and their supposed
roles. One of her most shocking actions was
her denial of her role as a mother and wife.
● Edna is fighting against the societal and
natural structures of motherhood that force
. her to be defined by her title as wife of
Leonce Pontellier and mother of Raoul and
Etienne Pontellier, instead of being her own,
self-defined individual.
● Edna believes that the life of the mother-
woman fails to satisfy her desire for an
existence free from definition. She pities
Adele and finds herself unsuited for the
lifestyle of the mother-woman.
● belief
These women are the examples that the men around
Edna contrast her with and from whom they obtain
their expectations for her.
● Adele Ratignolle is the epitome of the male-defined
wife and mother. She is a “mother-woman.”
● Adele is described as being a fairly talented pianist,
yet even the very personal act of creating music is
performed for the sake of her children. “She was
keeping up her music on account of the children, she
said; because she and her husband both considered
it a means of brightening the home and making it
attractive” (Chopin 27). Adele also brings constant
attention to her pregnancy in ways Edna finds to be
somewhat inappropriate. Adele is very proud of her
title of mother, and one might believe that
motherhood is what she was fated for.
 Belief system: Individuality and freedom
● Individuality and freedom in life is the
most important aspect in life.
● Valuing yourself over others and doing
things for yourself is the best approach to
life.
● "She understood now clearly what she had
meant long ago when she said to Adele
Ratignolle that she would give up the
unessential, but she would never sacrifice
herself for her children" (94).
● Edna embodies the view that her life is
more important than others.
● Edna first breaks from these traditional gender
roles after her “awakening” on Grand Isle.
● During her stay there, she sees herself as a woman
with a place in the universe and comes to view her
husband and children as constraints upon her
freedom.
● In New Orleans, she challenges societal norms by
refusing to limit herself to the private sphere as
she once did.
● Instead she goes out when she wishes, paints more
often, and explores her newfound individuality
and freedom.
 Belief system: Condoning Adultery
Firstly, defining adultery; it is an extramarital sexual act; often involving a married
person with another person that is not their spouse. The act of adultery from this
novel is not going to be focused on the main character; Edna herself, but rather the
young man whom she had met during the vacation at Grand Isle named Robert Lebrun.
This man had an ideal of being accompanied by different woman every time summer
comes. Not only that, the women he tempted were often married. Despite knowing that
Edna is a spouse to Leonce, Robert still thinks it was fine to seduce and get Edna to
. fall for him.
To back this up, there were sentences that he muttered in page 108; “Why? Because
you were not free; you were Leonce Pontellier's wife. I couldn't help loving you if you
were ten times his wife; but so long as I went away from you and kept away I could
help telling you so.” and "There in Mexico I was thinking of you all the time, and longing
for you.”. Right after these two sentences, he proceeds to say that he has a dream of
making Edna his wife; all while being in Edna and Leonce’s family house while the
husband is away and knowing that she is still married to Leonce.
 Belief system:

The actual process of childbirth is what brings Edna’s realization about motherhood to its full development. Adele summons Edna to
keep her company during her accouchement. When Edna arrives at the Ratignolle’s, she finds Adele in the salon, “all her beautiful hair
. . . drawn back and plaited. It lay in a long braid on the sofa pillow coiled like a golden serpent” (Chopin 121). This reference to the
serpent can allude to two different things. It can be “an image vibrant with suggestions of the natural world—and [Edna’s] sudden
aversion to it” (Lattin 43). The other possibility is that the serpent references The Bible, since the serpent was the creature that
convinced Eve to commit the original sin. Because of the serpent’s influence, God punishes Eve by vowing, “I will greatly multiply your
pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you”
(Genesis 3:16).

When she witnesses the birth of Adele’s child, it is brought to her attention that the female body is designed for childbirth, and she has
already committed herself to this purpose by becoming a mother. “Edna is confronted with the painful facts of her gender—because
while she may play the man, she is always the woman” (Killeen 423). Her mindset is all wrong for a mother, she sees children as just
one more life to populate the world, yet nature has decided that this is her purpose in the world.
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