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Chopin, Kate. The Awakening. New York: Harper Collins. Print.
Clark, Zoila. "The Bird That Came out of the Cage: A Foucauldian Feminist Approach to Kate Chopin's The Awakening." Journal for Cultural Research 12.4 (2008): 335-47. Taylor & Francis Online. Routledge. Web. 18 Nov. 2015.
Elz, A. Elizabeth. "The Awakening and A Lost Lady: Flying with Broken Wings and Raked Feathers." The Southern Literary Journal 35.2 (2003): 13-27. JSTOR. The University of North Carolina Press. Web. 18 Nov. 2015.
The bird symbolzes Edna's failure; the bird is broken like Edna's dreams of being understood
The fulfillment of Mademoiselle Reisz's earlier words
Uses birds to demonstrate that Edna needs to have the strength to become her own person
Foreshadowing the bird fluttering above the ocean when Edna dies
Pigeons are thought of as adapted to society, and nearly tame
Ironic that this is where Edna runs to escape society
The parrot symbolizes Edna's internal opinions, as we are introduced to the parrot (and the novel) with it yelling and swearing at Mr. Pontellier from its cage.
Mademoiselle Reisz is what is symbolized by the mocking bird, as the only person to understand Edna's frustration
The symbolism of the "mother-women" having wings is important as it alligns them with the pure ideal of an angel
Instead of using their wings and flying away as a bird would, it is as if their wings are clipped and only to be used to protect their children and look pretty as a domestic pet.
In The Awakening by Kate Chopin, birds are used symbolically to represent women's oppression.