The Awakening - Analysis of Edna

1. "How many years have I slept?" she inquired. "The whole island seems changed. A new race of beings must have sprung up, leaving only you and me as past relics. How many ages ago did Madame Antoine and Tonie die? And when did our people from Grand Isle disappear from the earth?" (Chapter XIII)
<Tab/>This poem reflects Edna's desire to be isolated with Robert and break free from the restrictions of the society that surrounds them. At the same time, her fantasy that she and Robert have already been left alone as "past relics" shows the reader the way that her new self-awaren…