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Acknowledgements
Introduction
1.Edna in Embryo Epitomized in Chopin's Short Stories
1.1 Women Hungering for Autonomous Selfhood
1.2 Women Awakened to Marital Complexity
1.3 Women Initiated into Libidinal Mystery
2.Edna's Awakening Process
2.1 Edna's Epistemological Struggle for Selfhood
2.1.1 Edna's Physical Awakening
2.1.2 Edna's Spiritual Awakening
2.2 Edna's Self-Oriented Androgyny
2.2.1 Presence of Androgynous Characteristics
2.2.2 Dilemma of Androgynous Identity
2.3 Edna's Recognition of Her Struggle as Useless Passion
2.3.1 Edna's Epiphany Concerning Motherhood and Wifehood
2.3.2 Unattainable Paradise Edna Pursues
3.Edna's Ambiguous Transcendence
3.1 An Appropriate Retribution-A Cursed Transcendence
3.1.1 The Public Reception of The Awakening
3.1.2 Edna as A Rebellious New Woman
3.2 A Warrior Choice-a biological transcendence
3.2.1 Edna's Epiphany Concerning Women's Biological Trap
3.2.2 Edna's Warrior Choice
3.3 A Spiritual Rebirth-An Affmnafive Transcendence
3.3.1 Main Ideas of Transcendentalism
3.3.2 A Transcendentalist Transcendentalism
Conclusion:Harmony as Ultimate Searching
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