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What is the purpose of life? What are we all reaching for? Many have pondered on this subject and have come to one conclusion – happiness. However, it is our choice whether to reach this state or not. In Kate Chopin’s work, “The Awakening, ....

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.... it is his/her responsibility to reach for it and achieve it. In “The Awakening,” Edna does not take responsibility. She tries her entire life to fit in the prescribed mold that her husband set for her. She invests so much time into duty and responsibility that she loses any happiness that she hoped to achieve. She was not aware of her “responsibility as a human being.” She was not “aware of one’s rational powers in the exercise of moral duty.” Edna knew she was not happy living as a puppet. She wanted a change. With time, Kant noted, the person who devotes their life to reason finds themselves needi ....