The Awakening Plot
This is the location where Edna begins to awaken to her desires and independence.
What is Grand Isle?
In Act 4, she is said to have fled Salem after stealing her uncle's money.
Who is Abigail?
"I have known her, sir. I have known her."
Who is John Proctor?
This activity, which is a good exercise and easy on the joints, is symbolic of Edna's growing liberation in The Awakening.
What is swimming?
This is the religion of the residents of Salem in The Crucible.
What is Puritanism?
This character's return to Mexico triggers a major emotional crisis for Edna and deepens her inner conflict between desire and societal expectation.
Who is Robert?
In Act 1 of The Crucible, this wealth is said to target other families with witchcraft allegations in order to acquire more land.
Who are the Putnams?
"Goodbye--because I love you."
Who is Robert?
DAILY DOUBLE
The bird that Abigail claims to have seen at the end of Act 4 of The Crucible is this color.
What is yellow?
Most of the Awakening is set in this city.
What is New Orelans?
DAILY DOUBLE
When Léonce comes home in Chapter 3, he awakens Edna by telling her to address what problem?
What is her child's fever?
The enslaved woman Tituba was originally from this island.
What is Barbados?
"The Devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone."
Who is Rev. Hale?
By moving to a pigeon house, Edna is trying to escape entrapment in a manner that alludes back to this caged bird, which is described in the opening paragraph of The Awakening.
What is a parrot?
DAILY DOUBLE
This term refers to descendants of French and Spanish settlers in America, an important group in The Awakening.
What is "creole"?
In a fit of rage, Edna tries to destroy this object out of frustration with her husband.
What is her wedding ring?
This judge, who presided over the trials in Act 3, is motivated above all to protect the court's integrity even at the cost of innocent life.
Who is Danforth?
"It is really too hot to think, especially to think about thinking."
Who is Madame Ratignolle?
This woman, who serves as a foil to Edna by embracing the traditional role of wife and mother, is a symbol of the oppression from which Edna gradually awakens.
Who is Madame Ratignolle?
Much of the Crucible alludes to this "-ism", which was a campaign of intense anti-communist suspicion in the US during the late 1940s and 1950s.
What is "McCarthyism"?
When Reisz is first mentioned, she is playing a musical number by this composer.
Who is Chopin?
Before becoming a minister, Parris had this job.
What is a merchant?
"Woman, my dear friend, is a very peculiar and delicate organism--a sensitive and highly organized woman, such as I know Mrs. Pontellier to be, is especially peculiar?
Who is Dr. Mandelet?
This signed legal document that Proctor gives to Danforth symbolizes the solid, evidence-based conviction that the witch trials were unjust.
What is a deposition?
The Awakening was written, and probably set, in this decade.
What is the 1890s?