A Journey To Self-Realization

This thesis, based on the notion of self-consciousness of women, makes a comparative analysis of women figures in Kate Chopin's The Awakening and Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, examines the heroines'similar progress in sexual awakening, voice against male domination, pursuit of economic independence and pursuit of true love, analyzes the heroines'different fates after awakening, explores the similarities and differences in self-awakening and self-realization of women. This thesis targets at pointing out the awakening of women is a complicated and difficult process. Without the support and help of males, it can be hardly achieved. However, women's real emancipation is lying on women themselves, whose persistence and economic as well as emotional independence serve as an important resolution to women's emancipation.