Some points to ponder....

What is right is always right.....

I am going to discuss Edna's awakening which is to her is a rightful act...once she came to self-realization, Edna had the courage to act on her own desires regardless of the consequences. Before the awakening, Edna is only a lifeless conformer to society’s rituals. Under the normal assumption, a woman’s survival was based on marrying well and having children. Mechanically she does so, only to regret that she realizes that she did not have choice. She laments and longs for freedom and love.

Hmm just what had happened to me recently....

I attended an NST's NIE programme yesterday. There was a lady teacher who
participated in one of the workshops. She constructed a sentence that goes -
"The camel stores water in its hump."

The workshop facilitator pointed out that camels dont store water in their hump. The hump is for storing fat.

The lady teacher was very annoyed. She insisted that the sentence be
accepted in toto because it was grammatically correct. The facilitator refused,
saying that as a teacher, she must always get the fact right first before they
even look at the nuances of the language.

Furthermore, the facilitator knew that the workshop materials would be used by participating teachers as a teaching primer for students when those teachers return to their respective schools. Thus, this teacher's students may well assume that camels store water in their hump because their teacher say so.

The lady teacher was adamant about the correctness of the sentence construction and refused to budge. The facilitator was equally adamant about getting the fact right first before proceeding. Hmmm ...the impasse has yet to be broken.......

As for my opinion,

"The lady teacher was adamant about the correctness of the
sentence construction and refused to budge." Well... she must be an English
teacher, so it is only right for her to defend the correct grammar of that
sentence. But anyway, so wat if the hump of the camel stores water. You wouldnt
like to explain to a primary kid that "fat, which will later be converted into
glucose which will then serve as an energy source for the camel when there is no
food." and the kid will thought, "The camel is so thin, where got fat?" These
kids will find out the real truth I am quite sure, when they enter a higher
level in their education. I don't blame the teacher though..

The same goes with Edna, later in life, she dares to look deep within her spirit to determine the type of woman she really was, facing all her doubts and imperfections. Edna demonstrates her bravery early by defying her father and marrying Leonce. She does not behave as a traditional woman would in those times.

Why on earth do married people have affairs? I am not limiting myself to married men here although their number is greater compared to married women having affairs. Many cite unhappy marriages as a reason to having extra-marital relationships.

I have never been fuzzy about this. If you have an unhappy marriage, why don't you try to make it happy? and if you can't (or won't), why don't you leave?

Edna took a realistic look at her faults and unconsciously compared herself to two very different role models in her life. Her marriage began in an act of defiance against her father and ended in an act of defiance against society as a whole. Edna’s vow to control her own life was uncompromising even through her own death. .... Nice words...and sentences... now I can start reorganizing my thoughts orderly...