Secondly, learning to swim is also used as a symbol of sanction and freedom. ... Just like learning to swim made her feel happy and gave her power, in the end the same power made her lose her life willingly and "the shore was far behind her, and her strength was gone". Thus learning to swim made Edna experience two aspects of her life- one of freedom and the other of death. ... Similarly, Edna seems to be unwilling to accomplish her goals according to the role she has in the society because of her misguided feminist notions, therefore symbolizing her misuse of her life as a wife and a moth...

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Granted some people will remain asocial the goal, as Freud points out, is to reduce the majority that is hostile toward civilization to a minority. ... But these religious ideas are not given to the individual, nor could he discover it for himself, rather they are already there and as he enters the civilization he takes it over just like learning the alphabet. ...

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