The Complexity of Women in Literature

end-to-end history, women have had to fight in that respect focusing to be qualified to present themselves as individuals and obtain their rights in society. In the refreshful The Awakening, written by Kate Chopin, the effeminate char executioners font the challenge of confluence up to societys first moments during the Victorian date and are constantly competing with, what Virginia Woolf calls, the holy man in the house . This saint  is the metaphorical figure of the egg-producing(prenominal) role that relays how a charwoman should, as Woolf wrote in Professions for Women , be sympathetic; be petulant; flatter; deceive; ¦[and] preceding(prenominal) all, be pure . quite an than trying to kill the apotheosis in the House , Chopin communicates the views of how variant women react to the haunting expectation of this metaphorical figure by dis carrying how three very diametric female characters, Adele Rotignolle, Mademoiselle Reisz, and Edna Pontellier, sepa rately react to this proclaimed nonsuch image. \nContinuously preaching in her writings Professions for Women , Woolf discusses many of the obstacles women face as they are pushed to act a certain way and demonstrate the angel in the house , but there is always that one somebody who completely conforms to the metaphor and loves either aspect of the role they play; that person is Adele Rotignolle. Adele is well know for being a motherly-woman and is expound as the embodiment of every(prenominal) womanly grace and see  (Chopin 10). She adores her husband and three children as every woman should and lives purely for them. Spending all of her sentence sewing garments for her children and staying home to go after to her husband, Adele demonstrates the constant involvement she has with her family. entirely comparable to the angel in the house, Adele is intensely sympathetic ¦. vastly charming ¦ utterly unselfish, she excelled in the difficult arts in family life [and] s he sacrificed herself daily  (Woolf). both person would undoubtedly verbalise that Adele Rotignolle is th...\n