is a much smaller term to display a much larger idea for social ethics. It is in this that Edna comes to odds against and struggles with, especially when she realized her position in the universe as a human being[recognizing] her relations as an individual to the world (Chopin 14). The relationship was being that of a subordinate to the male. Mademoiselle Reiszs station was among that of Victorian society, but with the tragic flaw that it was only by stature and not by divinity. She was in the social order, but without the beliefs that everyone felt someone of her stature should have To broaden this example, Mademoiselle Reisz is much like President Clinton, in the broadest of sense, because Clinton is among the elite in society. Clinton does not truly have the respect, authority, or admiration of his peers, compared to such a President as Ronald Reagan; this example holds true to Mademoiselle Reisz as well. Like a car alarm going off, most everyone notices it, most everyone ignores it.Those women of the lower class were considered below the Victorian order and any diversions, of either men or women, from their set societal positions were overlooked as being done because of a lack of refinery. The broad onset of the way the Victorian class felt towards the lower class is common knowledge today, but the sexual repression that stemmed from the Victorian class is not so commonly known. William Acton1 stated that the majority of women (happily for society) are not very much troubled with the sexual feeling of any kind (Wolf 2). This belief, along with the whole of Actons book, was a major influence upon the Presbyterian Church in the Victorian Renaissance (Wolf 2).Chopin shows that Edna had, since childhood, always bad problems dealing with her social order by the way Chopin describes her as having an outward existence that conforms, [and] the inward life that questions (Chopin 14). This idea of conformity was what eventually dr...
